Capturing Loneliness
“Do you know that not every picture could be as fine as it was in colour, after being transferred to black and white?
“Do you know that not every picture could be as fine as it was in colour, after being transferred to black and white?
“I love taking photo more.”
“Why?”
“A video is trying to make and keep a moment alive, to keep the time flows. Photo is on the opposite, it tries to stop the time. To steal the moment from the eternity. To lock everything in a moment of time.”
“Hm..”
“That's also why I love printed photos more, actually.”
“Because it fades with time?”
“Indeed :). Everything is beautiful with time, and matters only when there is the span of time.”
“If you know something is impossible to be happened, will you move on and get along, or will you bet and wait / have faith?”
“Depends on what makes it impossible. People confuse impractical with impossible, so we need to rule out impracticals. Then we need to rule out what we don't accept. Like, landing on moon tomorrow for me is impractical. Becoming a girl for me is possible, but I won't accept it, so it is out, too. Then there are things which are not in our hands so we assume them impossible. Then comes things which we can do with perseverance if we keep going, but we believe them to be impossible, just like how you said that you can't be a pro photographer. :P”
Some pictures just felt specific and can't be posted with different caption than what was already in my head when I captured them.
Some others can't even be explained properly using words, about how they felt to me and what they reminded me of. And this picture is one of them.
The beauty of it, I guess.
“Some photos are meaningful not because of the object. Sometimes it was about the moment. When did we take it? What did we feel at that very moment? Why did we wanna memorize that moment? Who do we wanna show it to? How do we expect that person to feel or react when he/she sees it? Some other times, some photos are meaningful because we know someone will feel very happy to receive and see it. Because we were remembering that person when we took it. And sometimes, they hold some feelings that we couldn't say out loud.”
“That's from the photographer's point of view. Yet do you know why the one who receive them feel happy? Even just to see some random meaningless scene? From the viewer's point of view?”
“Hm...tell me?”
“Because those pictures show a glimpse of the photographer's days, which the viewer wasn't able to share with. Or a glimpse of how the photographer see the world, which is very different from the viewer's point of view. Those pictures freezed the time and the memories. And sometimes, they gave space to some feelings that we wanna make sure of. :)”
“:)”
Take as much photos as you want when you first start. Let your whole body feel the instinct and learn the language.
Let your fingers be one with the shutter, and learn how fast they want to be.
Let your eyes be
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