Take A Picture

Me and my friend were browsing on some old pictures of ourselves. From 0 to 60 years, our lives were imprinted, our physical beings documented, but most of all, our outlook in life evolved. These olden photos of family and friends are my life. I would not exchange it for anything else especially the photos of my little boy as he was growing up. Even though a few of these photographs are humiliating to him such as the well-known bearskin rug, washing in the tub, sitting on the potty trainer while sucking on the pacifier and reading the comics. It is those moments of spontaneous living that capture our lives on a piece of paper. Aside from our personal lives, it also includes the global population and our historical beginnings. Photographs show us what life was like in years gone by, where we have been and perhaps where we are going.

Everyone in my family is a shutterbug. In the house, our family has had cameras as long as I can recall. We even had set aside pictures as old as our great grandparents. I was exceptionally camera shy (still am), and it seems that everyone was up to the challenge of getting a picture of me when I was older and could go into hiding. However, they exist and at present I'm happy that they took them. When the Polaroid came along, in the sixties, everyone in high school had one.

Depicted by Chinese and Greek philosophers, the fundamental principles and optics have been in existence since the 4th and 5th centuries. Actually, the word 'photography' comes from the Greek words, 'photos' (light) and 'graphein' (to draw) as a method of recording images of light or related radiation on sensitive material. A lot has changed in photography through centuries of years, expounding on the questions on how images are placed into sheets. With every new founder and new concepts, its history has become extensive and sophisticated.

Hamilton Smith founded one in 1876 using a thin sheet of iron as a mode. Numerous of these tintype plates still subsists nowadays, as celebrated memoirs of our past in particular. After that, was George Eastman. In 1889, he invented film that was flexible, unbreakable and could be rolled (bet you didn't know film was that old), and changed the way pictures were taken and recorded forever. Kodachrome followed in 1935 and color film was made available to the commercial market in the 1940's.

Moving forward with lightning speed, the technology has made photography and cameras available in just about any form imaginable. Nowadays, there are camcorders, portable phones with cameras, and cameras for the internet - several so minute they fit in the palm of your hand. In spite of these advanced gadgets attached to the camera which I have, I still enjoy using my camera without the frills.

I carry my camera with me wherever I go. There were some moments that I missed taking pictures of, like an unusual setting of the sun on the water, or something hilarious, or acquaintances gathering around for merriment. My camera is very well maintained. It has a casing that when the camera is not used, it stays there and in another bag are my batteries which I regularly charge, and all the lenses, flashes, and extra film. Thus, everywhere I go now, I am ready to capture that once-in-a-lifetime moment on camera. How about you?

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