With technological advances comes a myriad of new fanciful words
displayed in more ways than one in photography; selfies, Flickr, Instagram, muzzy, YouTube, etc. You track it, and you get lost in the cloud. Without photos and moving
pictures; the net will be boring as hell (whatever that is). Facebook, G+, and
other social websites owe their existence to whoever invented photography. Without
pictures, the world will be like a blank wall but oops…not quite. There were, and there are painters, but how many of them are realists who tried to depict scenes and events as close to reality as possible? There were few. Maybe the world will
not be a blank wall after all, but it will be decked with abstract paintings; who wants to live in an abstract world of distorted lines, dwarfed and
elongated figures soaked in hallucinatory colors. First and foremost, I am a
realist. I neither like nor hate the abstract. We live in a world of fast
tracks and bullet trains where contemplating the absurd is a waste of time. You must keep moving on, or you will be left behind while everybody races to the stars. That reminds me of a scene on MIB I watched a zillion times last
night. “I have a plane to catch (to the stars),” said the alien dog while being
shaken by an MIB (Tommy LJ) for galactic info :-)
We all remember the awe as awestruck seeing our picture for the first time. The earliest photo I can find of my childhood was
taken at the “Provincial Meet” when I was in the 4th grade. Nishreen is taking a selfie with her gadgets at the same age and grade. She takes
pictures of herself in front of the mirror and takes photos and videos of her
friends and classmates in settings of no consequence. To the present and future
generations, planet Earth is a small setting. The world has changed and
changed so great it truly boggles the mind.
Photography used to be a hobby for the wealthy. Even if one could afford a camera, one needed to buy the film and pay for the print. It used to be a pastime for the few.
Today; every dick, Mary, and Harry are photography enthusiasts so lost in their fancy that when they upload pictures to the net; they upload the whole pack regardless of whether it’s full of not only ugly, poorly taken shots but embarrassing scenes
as well. They have fancy but do not have a sense of art.
If you took a hundred photos and only a few turned out to be picture-perfect, deleting the undesirables will have cost you nothing. That is the real beauty of photography as a hobby. Take the advice: delete and edit before you upload for the “wow” factor… it's picture-perfect.
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