07.21
I have a terrible habit, that I pay too much attention to the technology gadget in hands. That habit, of course, is not something to be proud of. Just want to say that I shouldn’t have any piece of technology in hand, otherwise I may get addicted.
This is also one reason why I don’t have a compact camera, for everyday occasions. It would be much nicer to have my friends take the photos for me; and since the photos are in their cameras, they have a copy, thus might eventually think about me whenever they look at the pictures.
Just a joke…
To be honest, I prefer writing as a means to save the feelings and emotions. No matter how big a photo is, it is just a set of pixels in digital format. You may agree with me that there isn’t such a picture that looks exactly the same to the reality. Meanwhile, writing is all about imagination, where you can think about the event, and let the moments live on in a more lively way. There are things that a picture cannot express, such as the feeling of the guy behind the camera. Needless to say, those feelings are the most worthy things to be saved.
You need to be right there at the right moment to take the picture, and you might delete it immediately afterward because of its not-so-good quality. But for a personal piece of writing, there isn’t such a thing called bad-writing. It’s all about your feelings and emotions. And though you don’t write immediately at that moment, you write about what really means to yourself as a whole, not just a fraction of what your eyes can see (the pixels).
I don’t mean that photography is not good, yet it’s not to be done every day blindly. Live is much more meaningful than what a photo can explain. It might looks real, but emotion is the one thing that is stronger. I find it in writing; you might find it in Arts. How we do it, however, is not important. The key point is how to save the meaning in its fullest form possible.
That’s my point of view. How about yours?
Thoai, Nguyen Van – 1:55AM 21/07/2009
PS: If I had good mid-ranged DSLR camera, maybe I would take a few pictures. However, I don’t see a point taking photos every day (unless it’s your major). I personally don’t really enjoy using compact cameras as their quality is not satisfying compared to the moment that could potentially be missed when looking at the little LCD screen all the time.
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Then you haven’t heard the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Sometimes, even words cannot describe images. How would you, for example, describe the different tones of blue? An image can. One single image can carry many meanings. Since we are celebrating “Man’s first walk on the moon,” I would like to take the picture of our Earth, taken by Neil Amstrong from the moon, as an example. It was a wake-up call for all of us, because from this picture, people could see that our Earth was so fragile and peaceful…there were no boundaries. It struck people emotionally, and different people draw different meanings from the image. Images can evoke memories and feelings too: you look at an old image, and suddenly you’re reminded of that moment. Anyhow, as you said, each person has their own point of view, the goal is, “to save meaning in its fullest form.”
I’m not being critical about writing, though. In the process of writing we discover ourselves, it takes us on a path. Sometimes I write without a purpose or reason, its just a way to express my feelings. Maybe we can differentiate writing as expressing one self, and photography as capturing a moment…but then again it could be vice versa. Just my point of view