Eye of the Beholder

Seeing is NOT believing

The sky was stunning, I couldn't capture it. All the different colors in the sky turned out very differently after taking the shot. This isn't bad, but the sky itself... man it was amazing!

Sometimes you want to capture the moment, not just the scenery ... My aunt once told me something that I have always remembered. Although she may not recall that day, what she told me had a great effect on me. Let me rephrase her here:

Be in this moment, right now, try to remember everything, the scent of the wind, the freshness of the air, the beautiful sky, the color of the leaves, the love around you... try to remember this moment, now close your eyes and engrave it in your mind, forever. Then, when we're not together, or when you're not feeling good, when you need an escape, just close your eyes again, and remember this moment, remember the feeling, the taste, the smell, everything that comes with it. Remember it all, and relax ... Remember these moments to calm you down when you need them.

In fact, this is one of the reasons I love photography so much. I try to capture the scene, and while recording it on the camera, I try to encode all the other information that comes with that moment (and cannot be recorded on a compact flash card!) on my mind instead! So when I look at the picture later (which I do very frequently!) I get a hint of what that moment was like, and then reconstruct the setting in my mind.

The picture does not recreate the setting, it's just like a cue card: it is an index referencing to the place in your mind where you have stored the actual information.

posted by Arezou @ 6:57 PM