Photography… its more than a passion
Photos, pictures, images; different names for the same things. What is a photograph? Is it just some scene captured in a camera or is it reality as seen through the eyes of another person? If you see a child crying on the street, do you feel sad for the child? If you do, can you always express your emotions? No, we can’t, sometimes words don’t suffice. Sometimes we need to think outside the world of words. And what lies outside that? Images, of course.
When a person couldn’t express his feelings via words, that’s when a picture is created. A photograph is a souvenir, a remembrance of some past emotion. When you were born, do you remember how happy your parents were? No you don’t, because let’s face it, you were so small. But then you see the first picture your parents took with you, and there it is. The first time they felt so happy seeing you in their arms.
Again, your first day at school; you might remember bits and pieces but never the whole thing. That’s when the photograph comes in handy. You see it and see how happy and confused you were, how scared and how thrilled. Your first crush, you remember how you fell in love with her/him, but years later, it’s the photograph which makes it even more interesting. Yes, photographs are a way to remember the past, a way to keep memories and a way to live on. That’s why they say, “A PICTURE SPEAKS A THOUSAND WORDS” because let’s face it, not all can be said. The day you get married, you are probably the happiest person on heart, and years later seeing the wedding album, you still get misty-eyed, because all those emotions come flooding in and you can’t hold back your tears.
So the question arises, is photography a hobby, a passion or a necessity? Well I would say, it’s everything of this, because we click pictures out of necessity, which then becomes our hobby and eventually a passion. So for me, I would say, that when I click a picture it’s more of a necessity, an urgency to save the moment for eternity. Maybe that’s why, a long time back, people believed that a photograph actually captured a part of your soul. And that is probably the reason why I click pictures..
