PICTURE PERFECT; a cheap and rewarding hobby

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 4^th 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.