What is a photograph?
A photograph is a mili second captured on a paper, or as a viewable digital picture. It makes that one second last forever. Exactly the way it happened. No changes. It's a way to stop time. Keep it from moving, a way that defies the laws of time and movement. In that picture, time stands still, people stand still. Even after theyre long gone. They appear in that photo, just as real life. Just as they once stood before. A little peice of them caught in that little photo. Forever.
People change. They grow up or grow old. That photo of them is something that stays the same throughout time. It keeps them the way they were. It keeps them alive. It's magnificent if you ask me. I wish I can take pictures of the whole world on my camera, of everyone I know, everyone I don't know. Try and keep it. As it is. Forever.
We forget a lot. Forget how we once felt, how we once loved. We forget what we saw, what we encountered, we forget the bad times as well as the good times. Photos are there to remind us, how we once were. What we once saw, how we once lived.
A machine to stop time. And make us watch a moment over and over. Making time timeless.
Take your cameras out. Your future selves will thank you for it.
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