Written by: Suprabha Thami - 23043, Grade XII
Posted on: 20 February, 2023
Photographs are the perfect feed for social media or for some framework or a nice decoration for a house or workplace or anywhere possible nowadays. A photograph, commonly known as a photo, image or picture, would be defined as a picture made when light strikes a photosensitive surface, either a piece of film for photography or an electronic image sensor like a CCD or CMOS chip.
Nowadays, the majority of photos are taken with a smartphone/camera, which employs a lens to concentrate the scene's visible light wavelengths into a replica of what the human eye would perceive. Photography is the art and science of producing such images. I think it is more than just a digitally stored picture. A photograph is a picture that says more than any mouth can; a photograph brings back our memories that were lost and nowhere to be found and most importantly a photograph can be stored forever with the stories, both told and untold.
Our life is filled with many adventures, journeys and many memories of all kinds- happy, sad, embarrassing, romantic and many more. These kinds of memories are very special to all of us and photography is something that we could preserve forever. Even if we remember those moments, without a photograph, it cannot be completed.
Photography began in the late 1830’s in France. Ever since then, photography has been a very important part of our life. It helps us capture memories of all kinds and all times. It helps us bring back memories that were forgotten or were buried deep down in our hearts. Not only that, photographs also help us in the truth of the world, realise the beauty of many things and also realise our mistakes that we’ve been repeating since long, i.e it helps us reveal the truth of things hidden. Nowadays, photography is also taken as competition; surely the beauty of photographs is seen through it but the real perspective of photography is fading. People are starting to take photography as nothing but as a source of popularity and money. The memories meant to be captured are instead taken as pictures for all kinds of social media or for blogs, vlogs, etc.
People are forgetting what it is like to make memories and take the best shots of their memories and keep them safe. If we see, nowadays people don’t really have photo albums or some kind of photo frames with their recent or old memories captured. In conclusion, the concept of photographs should not be forgotten and be used for the purpose of making and capturing memories.
