"Picture Perfect"

"Living photography is positive in its approach, 

it sings a song of life - not death." - Berenice Abbott

"A picture is worth a thousand words". Whenever I read this quote, 

it puts my mind in deep thought, wondering at the truth in it. 

A picture can say a lot. I don't know the technicalities of photography. 

For me a photograph is beautiful,when it pleases my heart and soul. 

An appreciation for simple things or an eye for beauty. 

I don't look at the way it is taken, or the hues and colors, or anything else. 

When I see a photograph, what attracts me is the beauty in it, what it depicts and then the way I connect to it. Sometimes a photograph may be beautiful, but beyond that it doesn't speak out anything. It just goes blank in the mind. You cannot visualize anything beyond that. However much you try, you cannot find anything that catches your eye. 

Here, I would like to quote a friend, that the photograph is for the viewers to analyze or penalize it. A photograph can convey a lot of things, if you are able to connect to it. It can convey just a valid meaning, or a long story itself. The appreciation is for the unique ones that conveys a different story to each person who views it. It depends on the mental attitude of the one who views it. It has a depth in it, that makes you want to dive into it, to look for all the possible analysis it can give you. It makes you want to write a story about it. All the words come out so fluently, when you start describing it. 

 When we focus a camera to click a photograph, we just look for the best. The outcome may be a picture perfect photograph, that says a beautiful story or a story of self pity and remorse. It depends on the attitude we take towards life. Life is like a camera and the shots we take are the efforts we take in life; Focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if it goes wrong...Take another shot. We always learn to do better. Not just get into a remorse and leave it. The one who gives his best, gets the best shot, with an eye for reality that is natural. And the best ones are those in black and white.

You may see a lot of breathtaking photos but can never connect to it. It is not the 'know-how' of photography that attracts a man to a photograph but the simplicity, the realistic and natural image it portrays and makes a common man connect  to it. Sometimes you are left gazing at a photograph in awe wondering if  it is the caption or the photograph that is captivating and if they are complementing the other. Some photographs make you smile, some make you  sigh, and some you can just look at it for hours! Sometimes a photograph can make you write a story and can be depicted the way the viewer thinks of it

 As quoted by Ansel Adams,“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” It becomes a "A photograph that is worth a thousand words. "A photograph doesn't teach you to express your emotions, it teaches you to see and what the human eye observes casually or curiously, the eye of the camera notes and captures. 

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” ― Karl Lagerfeld