Resolution and an award
Stop taking photos. I’ve been sorting through photos for days and still haven’t actually looked at all the photos I took on this holiday. The strange thing is that there are entire stretches where my batteries were flat, I left the camera at the hotel and all manner of reasons why I had half days all throughout the trip where I didn’t have a camera and I still managed to take far too many photos.
The thing that really gets me though is that I don’t actually look at my photos. I have a few up around the house from various trips and times and they are lovely but I don’t go through photo albums or look at any saved pictures. I didn’t when I went to Thailand and I haven’t from any of the holidays I’ve had in Australia, so why do I keep taking photos?
I think it comes down to freezing a moment. If you see something then you’ll remember it but the memory gets hazy quickly. If you see something, line up a photo, frame it and press click you have far more chance of remembering what you saw. Possibly.
I guess the other problem is that most things look better in reality than they ever will in the photo. There are so many other sensations of sound and smell and just the presence of the place that they photo just doesn’t capture. It can’t capture how you felt standing in that place at that time. That’s probably true of any medium. Words don’t capture everything, images don’t, film doesn’t, in the end it is up to us to hold on to the memories.
Okay…
I’ve also been given a lovely blogger award.
Thanks Susie for the award. Here are the rewards.
- Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award. Thanks again Susie!
- Share 7 things about yourself. See below.
- Pass the award along to 5* bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic for whatever reason! (*Changed from 15 to 5, but I’ll leave it up to you the amount you want to give.) Also see below.
- Contact the bloggers you’ve picked and let them know about the award. To do…
Seven things about me that you can’t read on my ABOUT page:
1. I am a collector of some really random things.
2. When working I listen to music but I don’t listen to entire songs.
3. I love watching movies over and over again and pulling apart the plots.
4. When I was in highschool I loved watching SeaQuest but when I bought the first season on DVD I realised I really can’t remember why I liked it.
5. I don’t like toast but I love the word toast.
6. I eat when I’m bored.
7. My favourite colour to write in is green.
As to passing this award along… By the way if you want to know why I’ve given them the award, click on the link and check out these very interesting blogs.
Congratulations and thanks for writing such amazing blogs.
I’m hopefully going to be resuming a more normal posting schedule and will be back tomorrow.
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