Friday, June 11, 2010

Chapter 96: A Thousand Words

Thinking back, I have this habit of never using pictures for this blogsite. I guess it's just part of my own personal code in writing here.

Besides the fact that this functions as my notepad rather than a sketchpad, I never quite enjoyed or fully appreciated the concept of taking pictures.

Typically, when tourists come to look at displays or areas of interest, rather than take their time to enjoy the present using their five senses, they choose to immediately snap a photograph.

This photograph functions as something for people to look at after their trip.

But often, when taking photographs, we forget to take our time to actually experience the whole thing fully and first hand. In that case, I feel that the point of the whole trip was wasted. If that is all you wanted to do, why not just practice photography at home and look for pictures on books and the internet?

I think, perhaps, I would rather focus on saving the experience as a memory within me that I can still feel the power of my five senses whenever I think of those times.

And the words I use here are an extension of what I have observed.

Until then.

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