Friday, August 27, 2010

What A Joy Is Learning 5

What A Joy Is Learning 5
(shooting)

I recently started to learn to handle a digital pocket camera, perhaps the most simple one. But I was amazed. How wonderful it was. I could take beautiful country pictures on my way on my bike and take it home, play it back without going to the foto studio to make the foto’s, up to almost 1.500 shots. The pictures could be enlarged, moved, up and down, left and right. It could present if calculated, each one about a thousand possible picture positions, show it on TV or computer, print, send somebody by e mail, save it in internet and it can even do video recording.

Oh, what a joy and I’m just starting to learn it as I think of shooting weeds, lovely weeds I call it, having no name, almost unnoticed, unknown, forgotten, except as harmful weed to be extinguished, cleared out. I have no intention, pretension to be scientific, that is for those that are clever. Of shooting caterpillars, butterflies, dragonflies, lizards, chameleons, insects, birds, … a lovely girl. Besides, shooting works of art and have my own art gallery in my computer or camera.




I imagine that there will come a time when we’ll have an all surround-video camera, recording pictures covering the entire surroundings including sounds, scent, it’s coolness, the air. We then are as though back again on the same space, same spot while sitting in the room. How wonderful to see it live around us, only we can’t touch them. But that is for our grand-grand-grand-, … children to enjoy.

August 2010

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