A picture is worth a thousand words (sometimes)

A picture is worth a thousand words refers to the idea that complex stories can be described with just a single still image. Since couple months ago I want to learn photography to be able to show some of those stories, what my eyes see or what I believe is interesting to keep along the time.

I was browsing on internet yesterday and I found the photo below and it stayed in my mind, it was took by Christophe Simon and it is a soldier of US Bravo company 82nd Airborne division guards and a detained who was catch in Baghdad on 1st February 2005.

However this is not a sad blog and the recent picture tries to show you how many things or stories can be “read” from a single picture.

Last week a friend sent me a .pdf with her classes and Jx has a little of knowledge of photography that he shared while we were traveling.

• I learned that the horizons never has to be in the middle of the photo.
• I learned that as good as it is to take pictures it is know which ones is better to delete and that too many picture are always boring!
• I learned that Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was who invented photography.
• I learned that usually is better photos with people than with just landscapes.
• I learned that Hippolyte Bayard, who was the first person who find how to keep the image in a paper, took a picture of his self dead and he started giving it to people on the street.
• I learned that is better pictures of a group of persons upper the hip than with all the body.
• I understood why there are to many cameras with a function to only take pictures when you smile (fake pictures is the name of the function) and I learned that a picture of a real smile could be one of the nicest photos.
• I learned that print a picture and give it a as a present could be really nice.
• I learned that pictures are an excellent way to share places, moments and people with other people or in a different time.
• Camera Obscura

Enjoy taking and sharing your pictures, mines from Auckland are coming soon