Photographs. Home videos. What splendid inventions. Man found a way to capture time and space in 2D and 3D what God initially thought could be stored only in their minds. From the good old pinhole camera days, ten centuries ago to the present digital age, we have been fortunate enough to store our memories and see them whenever we want to.
The only problem now is organising our photos. There are photos and videos in our digital camera, mobile and the camcorder. Too many photos in too many folders. Too many wires to charge the devices and too many USB cables to connect it to our computers. Assuming that we have managed to organise everything... lets say, we store them properly as prints and CDs/DVDs. In hard bound albums and leather cd pouches. Now the million dollar question - how long can we have them? As long as we live. So what happens after that? Our next generation will hopefully preserve it and see it whenever they want to(and hopefully remember us). How long can this go? Do you think our great great great great grand children will treasure it too? How many photos of our great great great grand parents do we have? How much time do we spend talking about them?
Once my cousin and myself took the effort of collecting old photos of our grandparents, scanning them and hosting a website. Imagine. We are a family of 40 in my mother's side. Only two had the interest. Imagine if I die tomorrow, I'll have no idea what will happen to the photos after that. Or lets say, I die a natural death at 80 something( Murphy has to prove it wrong, so I'll live longer:-)) what will happen to the photos after that? I'll never know. Or imagine there was a tsunami and the flood swept away all my photos and videos. (that is little over the top or me being my paranoid self). Ok, what Iam trying to say is that technically memories cant last forever. They last only as long as we live. But photographs and videos are a wonderful thing. I want to collect it as much as I can and relish it on a rainy day or whenever I can. No matter when I die, I'll be happy that I have captured these moments that mean so much to me. By that way, somehow i get this feeling that Iam living life to the fullest.
1 comment:
And that is why you have Blogs like this.... so that people can stumble on to it during your lifetime and go wow! over all your pictures. Another thing, Van Gogh and Dali are names that people don't recognise nowadays - yes there are people who don't know these people from Adam... but people interested will see what we have to show to the world, you and your photos, me and my words... there will be takers... and that's why I've passed on your blog... let's say, I'm another one interested in reviving the good old days of photo loving!
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