I Take Pictures Because ....
Yesterday, I went out on a date with hubby. We went to the hotel which I mentioned about in this post. We ate, enjoyed the view and played chess after all of that. This was him, thinking of his next move.
While rearranging the chess guys, the reflection of the sky on the pond next to the chess board caught my eyes. It gave me an idea of writing this article.
If you'd take a look on all of my blogs, I often used the Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 edition in most of my photography blogs. I got this phone when hub decided to get himself Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 edition which I sometimes use just because it has a bigger screen and a farther range. He had to get one when our Samsung Galaxy Note 1's gingerbread OS was declared obsolete for apps. It couldn't run some of the important apps we're using anymore once updated. Technology evolves very fast these days - just like what Heidi Klum often says in her tv series;"One day you're in, the next day... you're out."
Why Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 edition?
We took the 2016 editions because it's a lollipop OS unlike the earlier edition and we just wanted the latest possible edition to make it last. We don't like buying stuff as if you're keeping up with the Jones'. That's why sometimes, you still see me write - that I used my Samsung Galaxy Note 1 for some other pictures.
I love the resolution of the pictures the Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 edition makes. Not to mention that it's pretty handy and has effects that could turn pics you take into sepia, vintage and like the first one up there - cartoon.
It works well with close ups so I noticed. It still captures landscape that stretches afar beautifully but I do love the close up shots more. The details are just - vivid.
Here are examples of shots of subjects that I took with Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 edition from afar.
Yes, it's what the vicinity of the hotel looks like. I still like the shots I made because they still reflect the happiness I was feeling yesterday. I love taking a stroll in there. It's a drive away from home but it's just freaking worth it. It's such a beautiful place. Peaceful, quiet and so close to nature. You only hear the singing of chickadees calling for their mates and sometimes a European robin would tail you hoping for crumbs on the stroll path. Yes, birds fly low on this side of the earth.
However, as you can see - the details captured by Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 edition from afar isn't that vivid anymore. Unlike if you use a DSLR or add an extra lens to your smartphone to enhance the image. Subjects look bigger than they do when I take the close up as well. Okay, the sunlight and the focus plus crouching to get these shots - do add up to that effect as well.
The reflection of the trees in the water in the first picture below which I managed to get closer to and capture is clearer than the reflection of the woods in that mere in the second and third pictures.
These shots were focused on the row of trees and yes, when I drag the yellow ring of the focus feature to reach till the far end of subjects like this, I still am happy with results.
It's just a smartphone camera but it captures beautifully.
Yesterday, while I was taking all these shots, hub asked me why I often take shots of places and things that we often see and visit. I told him, they seem to look different every time. Plus, when we were younger, our parents didn't take much pictures like folks do now - as reflected on their kids' social media posts. I like going back to beautiful and sweet mementos of places I've visited to recall the happy moments we did there.
It's important to live in the moment and these pictures help remind me that such a beautiful moment has been built with many beautiful events that happened in a beautiful past.
The movie "The Notebook" has inspired me to start doing that. I only started taking pictures of places I've visited when I met hub. I wanted to collect pictures of places with attached beautiful memories to look back to when we start walking on sticks together. Take a peek of a few of those memories on photographs I've etched here. Most of them taken by that Samsung Galaxy Note 1 which was my very first smartphone.
Someday, no matter how healthy we are now, our strength and youth would leave us and I would want to live long and grow old with hub. I collect these beautiful mementos so someday, in one of those days - someday.. when we sit on these chairs overlooking the tea- garden of the hotel...
we could look back at those pictures and the beautiful memories we had that were written with them. Like us, the earth seems to age. Every year, this place has a different face. It has a different look in each season. We'll never know what it would look like in the morrows ahead. Now, that this is all written in the block chain, today, October 4, 2016 - this is what the sky on this side of the earth looks like. The woods in the forest - are still pretty young, thick and green despite that it's already autumn and the many of them have browned and fallen on the ground.
On the way back home, we dropped by a gas station for a refill. I saw this sky and thought ... Had I stayed a few minutes more in there ... it's reflection would have looked so good in the mere.
I follow @jamtaylor, @thecryptofiend, @mweich, @shaka, @mikemacintire and the many others photography bloggers because I am self thought - I got no idea which camera does what works and sometimes you could get tips on how to capture the subject beautifully if you read what they write. I bumped into this post authored by a fellow Filipino @runrudy who walked me through a lady bug macro photography.
Most of the time, I take pictures to etch memories on them.
If I could just save the positive emotions I felt being on a certain place I visit, I would .
However... just like we can't save the sunshine to withdraw for gloomy days, nor we can't capture the smell on photographs, we can't save the emotions we feel on a certain event in a certain place - somewhere. So, I captured them on mementos of beautiful pictures that could remind me of the happiest I felt and the most beautiful times I've had ... my whole life.
How about you? Why do you take photos? Would you dare share on the comment below?
Like looking at pictures of places to check out what a certain side of this earth look like before and now, like I do? I post about such so FOLLOW ME @englishtchrivy. ^ ^
Lovely photos! I always want to take pictures myself, as I enjoy looking at them later.
The one with the reflection of the sky in the pond I like very much.
There was a time when I used my Nikon D50 a lot. Catching memories, beautifull places, objects from a different angle.
And I still have that, almost 'Classic', camera, I rarely use it. Still, my Mobile could not compete. Even at 'only' 6 megapixel the Nikon wins hands down.
But a Mobile is so handy to carry around. Catch a moment? A Sunset during the evening walk? Click and on the web right away.
And this time of the year, autumn, Nature gives a beautifull Color palet. Specially in the morning or evening Sun.
@oaldamster - I think cameras with special lenses and not of any smartphones - are still the best. My canon DSLR took it's rest pretty easy. In the Phils. we could have it fixed - in here we can't. T.T
True, nothing beats a DSLR. Sorry your Canon did not make it. New one is quite expensive. These days they also film in awesome quality. But the latest mobiles of Samsung, etc., also shoot awesome images and Movies.
Nic pix. I love the long narrow road one!
@team101 thank you, that one I actually took with the Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 edition - I couldn't get the top of the trees in the A3 . The A5 has a longer screen.
lovely pictures - i love photography too , not brilliant at it still learning ! I like to photograph people mainly.
Looks like a nice place you lunched at .
@ladypenelope1, I remember you're soon to go to a beautiful place this month.. take me with you through your photos :D
it's a place where you could pay bitcoin ^ ^ , I love that place
haha, I have a chess board almost as big as this a the school I practice tajii. unfortunately, they usually keep the chess pieces.
Very nice post and lovely pictures!
@richman, thank you!
You always welcome!
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Nice reflection on photography! Taking photos helps me to slow down and really look at things - both when I take a picture and later, when I edit an image.
@haphazard-hstead thanks for dropping by -
So it also helps you slow down to take a good look at things, I guess most photographers have the same habits. My hub sometimes find it annoying when I stop, crouch to take a snap shot of something I see beautiful in nature.
it's an old article, glad to know someone's reading it. Cheers :)
The running joke with my parents and sisters is which group goes slower -- bird watchers, fungus fans, or photographers. They are all so slow -- we do all those things, but I know it's painful for folks that want to move faster.
I've been away from Steemit for a few weeks, so I'm trying to catch up. The archive of Steemit posts is so rich, but there's not much ability, yet, for people to appreciate them.
@haphazard-hstead you're right - it's growing pretty fast and there's more readers now, too these days which makes it much better.
Well, you'll catch up - and I hope you have fun along the way, so many things have changed.
Almost every week there are fixes - it's just getting better in a very fast phase in my experience. Sometimes, it gets overwhelming with the information and the new stuff that people brought in to help everyone.
Thanks -- I see all the Steemit development and changes as a good sign. And it will keep us all on our toes, to adapt to surprises!