I got to thinking the other day with the prevalence of so many phone cameras in the hands of everyone and easily taking all sorts of photos
Why A Snapshot Is So Wonderful
- freezing time, what you hold in that image is unchangeable, the people, the lighting, the landscape, the "event"
- sharing, printing, sending on the Internet, posting to the web, it is easily an experience others can feel instantaneously like seeing a painting in a museum
- memories, you get to hold on to that TIME to review deeper into the future when the world will have changed much from that point
- taking multiple ones of the same thing, like capturing a little child's first eating a cupcake, you see how imperfection is good, cause they grow so fast, and today memory or printing is cheap so shoot away
- reminding yourself there is much beauty in life, you are documenting it, sharing laughter and joy
Photography can bite us all as a bug with small pocket cameras with high megapixels or cameras inside phones which keep getting better and better. Keep your eyes open for that MOMENT, something you want to preserve, and feel free to take lots that you would toss too. A numbers game surely is photography, taking many to get that ONE. But that ONE, looking back, sure can be worth it.
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