In Defense of the Selfie

I have spent most of my life loving photography in one form or another. My very first camera was given to me in 1987, one of those Fisher-Price kids' cameras, with the external bulb flashes -- man, I loved that thing. I took a photography class in high school, and several more in college where I learned how to develop my own film and expose my own prints. Finally, in 2007 (the year before my first child was born), I got my own DSLR. Then came smartphones with cameras -- and the selfie was born. ...