The story of the viewfinder

  I like photography myself. To many people, the main reason of taking photographs is perhaps for the purpose of remembering something. Something which is important. Imagine that you are sitting comfortably in a cozy coffee shop in a lazy afternoon, listening to your favourite music, immersing yourself in the memory of those good old days provoked by the photos you once took. How wonderful it is! I like to do that. Everyone does. But, I go a bit beyond that.

  It is pretty easy to take a photo, but never true for taking a nice photo. Suppose, you are on a road trip with a bunch of good friends. En-route, there is this spectacular scenery. It is so gorgeous that you want to take it down with your camera and share it with your loved ones when you are back later. You searched your bag and took your camera out. You looked into the viewfinder trying to take the best shot. But here comes the problem: you realised that it is the standard lens that joint to your camera body and the lens is not wide enough to take the whole part of it. You wish you have brought your wide-angle lens, but unfortunately not. Worse, your camera is not that advanced which allows you to have panorama mode. How? You have no choice. You need to take one or two photos which represent the whole. (Trust me, it is never easy!) Now, you set-up a tripod and have your camera standing. You search for the best view. After a few seconds, you think you found a pretty good one. You are so happy and you want to ask your mates if they think it is good one as well. What should you do? Ask them to look into the viewfinder!

  Any 3-dimensions object has facets. If I randomly ask people on the street to take a photo each in order to represent the best of an object, I wonder how many of the photos taken will be alike at the end of the experiment. Some people might like to take from the top, while some other people might like to take it from the side, or even from the bottom. It is somewhat like how the worldviews go around. Looking at the same incidence, each of us holds our own stance and view. We might even have different understanding and perception towards what is going on. Thanks to our past.

  A day is generally made up of 2 parts: important moments and trivia. We perhaps have been paying too much attention to events which seem impacted us, while neglecting the trivia. Sometimes, we might even think that trivia is bothering. But, I found it not true. There are actually big things and wisdom behind trivia. If you stop and examine it, you might be amazed by the things you see and wisdom you learned.

Come, do join me seeking the big things and wisdom in everyday's trivia.