With technological advances comes a myriad of new fanciful words
displayed in more ways than one in photography; selfie, flickr, instagram, muzzy,
YouTube etc. You track it, 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 whomever 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 realist that tried to depict
scenes and events as close to reality as possible; few. Maybe the world will
not be a blank wall after all but it will be decked with abstract painting but
huh; 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 are a waste of time. You
need to keep moving on or you will be left behind while everybody else race to
the stars that reminds me of a scene on MIB I watched for 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 in awestruck seeing our own
picture for the first time. The earliest photo I can find of my childhood was
taken at the “Provincial Meet” when I was at the 4th grade. At the
same age and grade; Nishreen is taking a selfie with her own gadgets. She takes
pictures of herself in front of the mirror, 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 have changed and
changed so great it truly boggles the mind.
Photography used to be a hobby for the moneyed. Even if one
is able to afford a camera, one needs to buy the film and pay for the print. It
used to be a past time 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 the fancy but not the sense of the art.
If you took a hundred photos and only few turns 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…its picture perfect.
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