If only we could capture every moment and little things around us, just as how a camera captures them.
Recently I was in a conversation with a friend who had recently started photography as a hobby. When he first told me that, for a second, deep within me, I felt like, seriously? Photography as a hobby?
I used to feel that photography was something people just did to capture moments, important events and memorable times that they would want to remember and someday can pull out that moment through pictures. Or maybe in this age and time, to share photos with their friends on Facebook and get a good profile picture to find dates, etc.
What amused me further was when he shared his work of photographs taken; I saw that he had captured not only pictures of people and special moments but also pictures of insects like butterflies, scenery, fishes, plants, buildings, etc.
At first, before I looked closely at it, I thought to myself, why would one take a picture of a butterfly?
But, the closer I looked at this picture of the butterfly, the more I saw things in the butterfly my naked eyes couldn’t capture otherwise.
I mean, yes, most of us would agree that butterflies are beautiful. However, the beauty of it through the lens of a camera, the art, passion and talent took to capture it sure made the butterfly more alive in the photo than it does on a tree, to the extent that I felt connected to it. I then looked through his collection and was so impressed with what a camera could do. I felt enlightened.
That’s when I realize that we have a pair of eyes to see. And yes, we can choose to see the beauty of life how we want to. However, it would take a lot, or it could almost be impossible for our minds to capture what we see in life just the way a camera captures it.
All we can do is try. Try to look at things more profound and try to capture the beauty in all we see. After being able to do that, life would not look the same again.
I do hope, with technology being so advanced, there comes a day when there will be a contact lens that could capture that beauty of life a camera does. I think I’d be the first one to get it.
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
By Kapila Khindriya
Friday, September 23, 2011
Beauty of Life,Eyes Can't Capture
If only we could capture every moment and little things around us, just as how a camera captures them.
Recently I was in a conversation with a friend who had recently started photography as a hobby. When he first told me that, for a second, deep within me, I felt like, seriously? Photography as a hobby?
I used to feel that photography was something people just did to capture moments, important events and memorable times that they would want to remember and someday can pull out that moment through pictures. Or maybe in this age and time, to share photos with their friends on Facebook and get a good profile picture to find dates, etc.
What amused me further was when he shared his work of photographs taken; I saw that he had captured not only pictures of people and special moments but also pictures of insects like butterflies, scenery, fishes, plants, buildings, etc.
At first, before I looked closely at it, I thought to myself, why would one take a picture of a butterfly?
But, the closer I looked at this picture of the butterfly, the more I saw things in the butterfly my naked eyes couldn’t capture otherwise.
I mean, yes, most of us would agree that butterflies are beautiful. However, the beauty of it through the lens of a camera, the art, passion and talent took to capture it sure made the butterfly more alive in the photo than it does on a tree, to the extent that I felt connected to it. I then looked through his collection and was so impressed with what a camera could do. I felt enlightened.
That’s when I realize that we have a pair of eyes to see. And yes, we can choose to see the beauty of life how we want to. However, it would take a lot, or it could almost be impossible for our minds to capture what we see in life just the way a camera captures it.
All we can do is try. Try to look at things more profound and try to capture the beauty in all we see. After being able to do that, life would not look the same again.
I do hope, with technology being so advanced, there comes a day when there will be a contact lens that could capture that beauty of life a camera does. I think I’d be the first one to get it.
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
By Kapila Khindriya
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