To me, it's different. The best way for me to describe what I feel is beauty by saying Beauty is Photography.
If you look at photography, each picture shows a moment in life, weather good or bad. It doesn't have to really be 'beautiful' physically in the picture, it just has to mean something more then just 'it looks nice'.
Beauty to me is a moment captured in time that inflicts strong emotion, and creates feelings. Happy ones, sad ones, angry ones, and everything else in between.
I had a previous blog about a picture from National Geographic that I believe means something. Now, when I went to there website I realized what a wonderful example that site was, especially the one collection of pictures about humans and cultures. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, visiting that site is a wonderful idea. It really is beautiful to see.
A lot of pictures might not even have anything really extraordinary about it. Like this picture:
Great. It's a whole bunch of pigeons. But that's not my point, is it. Look at it closely, how dose it make you feel? What does it make you think of? Why? It's only a bunch of birds, right? Or is it really? Does this picture mean more then it leads on?
This picture too. All the colors and movement. Fun, right? The excitement and brightness. This picture has to say something. It's all about catching the moment. Feeling the slit second. It's beautiful.
And this one. Just a tunnel right? But maybe this picture makes you feel curious. what's around the corner? Where are these people going? Or maybe this tunnel makes you feel a kind of loneliness. It's so empty. Are these people running away? Maybe just going away for any other reason. Are they leaving their family? Wife's? Children?
Photography presents beauty.
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