Picturesque

I looked back at the pictures I took on my mobile when we were at Leicester (number count: 2).

Have you ever wondered what is in a picture? I just watched an episode from Desperate Housewives, and Mary-Alice Young did talk about the many wonders a picture does, and how pictures can capture memories. What if pictures could tell us about the present, and the future?

Walk through an art gallery. Take a deep breath before you look at a contemporary work. Or even a famous piece of art. Look at the paints. How the colours fly from one end to the other. How the brush curved it's way to form a shape. Now, take a step backward, and look at it once more. Close your eyes, and imagine. The colours, now, literally flying, takes you on a ride you will never forget. Figures move, and fires dance. Open your eyes when you think you've finally had the best experience of your life. If you think you can't have that, don't judge on the artist, reflect on yourself. It's not the artist's fault you can't understand his language.

Portraits are even better. They can even tell you how their personality and character was when they were alive, or even, how they even are now. Repeat the process as par above, if desired.

Where were we? Oh yes, the pictures, taken by the machine which was first invented by George Eastmann in the 19th century. How much the simplest of inventions have developed and changed! Truck loads of new brands and new models of cameras, both professional types and the usual types (now separated to 2 more branches: manual and digital). How ever the camera progresses, it just boils down to one universal purpose: to take pictures for memory sake. You see tourists taking pictures of monuments and old cracked-up buildings. You see families taking pictures of themselves to remind them of the answer to "What is FAMILY?". You see someone alone holding a camera taking shots all around him/her (awfully eerie and uncanny), although it was just only for art's sake.

Pictures can tell us a lot of things. All five WH- questions can be answered. Simply miraculous little coloured piece of paper. *Laughs with a single drop of tear*

Oh, back to that picture I saw. It was 2 of my other friends and me posing for the camera. What I saw was a bloated man who is full of knowledge and experience, an old lady who has 3 children and 9 grandchildren, and a "china-apek" in his late 50's. =)