‘A picture is worth a thousand word’
‘A
picture tells a story just as well as a large amount of descriptive text’.
A moving photographic journey around the world with images of extraordinary
political struggle and ordinary moments of humanity, wonder, and
imagination...The picture provides dual pleasure, the beauty of the photographs
themselves and the resilience they so frequently depict, and how the interplay
of image and text can produce a dizzying range of responses.
Very
often, imagery experiences are understood by their subjects as echoes, copies,
or reconstructions of actual perceptual experiences from their past; at other
times they may seem to anticipate possible, often desired or feared, future
experiences. Thus imagery has often been believed to play a very large, even
pivotal, role in both memory and motivation. It is also commonly believed to be
centrally involved in visual-spatial reasoning and inventive or creative
thought. Indeed, according to a long dominant philosophical tradition, it plays
a crucial role in all thought processes, and provides the semantic grounding
for language.
However, in the 20th century vigorous objections were raised
against this tradition, and it was widely repudiated. More recently, it has
once again begun to find a few defenders.
One can say that a picture goes a long way in terms of conveying emotion, building a brand image and creating individuality and personality.
Though we differ in the way we look and things we believe in, there’s something we all share: emotion. Human emotion is innate in all of us; it’s something we’re born with and something we die with. Happiness, sadness, love, hatred, worries, and indifference. These are things that constantly occur in our daily lives.
Captivating photos conveys celebrations, sadness in defeat, raw anger, and everything else in between that makes us what we are… human.
Nowadays, pictures are used in several fields such as science, business, recreational purposes and mass communication. For example, we can remember a famous brand just by looking at their image and can even reminisce 10, 20, 30 years into the past to a moment in our lives where we were affected emotionally by a specific event simply by looking at an old picture.
An images can also warn us or give us clues about to what’s to come.
Magazines understand the basic nature of human beings and our inability to ignore powerful images. Along with powerfully emotional headlines, pictures that capture stunning moments in time stand prominently in our view peaking our curiosity and changing our mood instantly.
From
my perspective, power images conveys deep emotional connections in people’s
mind. They affect how we see ourselves and the world around us and enhance the
likelihood that we will take certain actions to stay cohesive with our
identity. Make your home seem lived-in while away by putting lights and a radio
on timers.
Pictures are powerful and
when used in the right way they can influence our readers, customers and our
society, but they must flow well with our content or they may end up leaving a
bad impression.
When
it comes to blogging creativity is one of the most important elements you can
have. Images, writing style, your topics of discussion and the design of your
website are all very important elements when it comes to creativity.
Good
images create an atmosphere that people want to invoke themselves in and be a part
of.
There’s
something wonderfully inviting about a blank piece of paper, lying unmarked,
clean and pristine. It seems ripe with creative potential, as though waiting
for that first brush stroke or pencil line. But this month, what if instead of
adding to that sheet of paper, we take something away?
Our
photographs tell us what is important to us.
When
you ask people what possessions they would rescue from their burning house, one
of the most frequent answers is the photograph album or a computer with their
digital images. When in panic mode it’s interesting that we would probably grab
photos rather than valuable jewelry. This impulse to save our recorded memories
is a powerful force which tells us much about the role of photography in our
lives and our constant desire to distill our most precious moments into images.
We
preserve the important events and people in our lives. The ceremonies of birth
and birthdays, marriages and anniversaries, holidays and new houses are all
recorded because they matter. Photographs are our personal story, a timeline of
our lives filled with faces and places that we love. They are our story, which
we can share with others. The hundreds of images come together to form a
narrative of our lives. Photographs are part of our legacy.
Photographs
allow us to share and to communicate.
Images are much more than a simple record.
Photography speaks to the best and most generous part of our human nature. The
desire to share what we find beautiful and interesting with others. You only
have to look at Flickr and a multitude of photo sharing sites to see this
impulse at work. Millions of people sharing their personal, passionate and sometimes
quirky take on the world around them. Our images can involve a world of
strangers in our life. How powerful is that?
Photography
makes us artists.
Photography
allows us to express ourselves through an art form. We notice a beautiful
landscape or an old man’s lined face and we want to capture it. Each of us will
have a different reason to do so but, essentially, we want to create something.
However, the creation of an image makes us an artist. It feels good.
Joolia Bibi Mushiirah
