“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
— Anonymous
On the occasion of #worldphotographyday, myself a small learner and observer of life, who happens to document them, as is, it is, ofcourse there would be a story hidden, behind each photograph.
As a child, I was never to be seen in pictures, because yours truly was a defacto family photographer. Those days, analog camera, the roll and printing and subsequent Joy and excitement enveloped the printed versions, #matt finish...
It's like the pre instant maggi time, where a picture equalled to hard toil, sweat and dirt, like giving a birth. Don't want to sound like a dinosaur, in 2020, I do not have a camera. Just a mobile phone.
My last spoil was a Samsung #s10, and happy so far. Graduated from rigid and fixated Microsoft Nokia to flexi and modern Android. Hmm. There is a difference... Myth buster of an old Millennial.
Photography has become easier, cheaper and better. No matter quality, quantity is humungous.
Some facts
350 Million photos are uploaded every day, with 14.58 million photo uploads per hour, 243,000 photo uploads per minute, and 4,000 photo uploads per second on Facebook.
50 Billion photos are uploaded on Instagram. There is Google, Pinterest and thousands of websites that needs visual content first. Hence, photography.
A picture speaks a thousand words, is apt. A video can tell you a story. The future is video. A finer version of photography.
I wish all my best to all my well wishers. As an artist and visualizer, happy #worldphotographyday to all.
Trivia
1. The picture of the 🐦. What so special about this photo? Is it the timing, or the bird, or how it let me took its photo or its a special bird giving a message. Photography can mean different things to different people.
My friend Paritosh, told me once that ancient people used to think the atma (spirit) is attached to a photo, hence some people never let themselves to be shot.
