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side just get a little closer come on
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and get it look closer okay everybody
smile one more okay I just took a
picture obviously why maybe to remember
the day my TED talk to post on social
media to remember who I was talking to
or just print out on shutterfly
photography is a part of our lives and
that’s what I’m here to talk about today
I love photography in fact some of my
favorite hobbies helps us to see the
world in different ways and ricci events
according to Dorothea Lange an american
documentary photographer the cameras an
instrument that teaches people how to
see without a camera but there are
problems with this how many pictures you
take in a day a week or month how many
photos on your camera right now what’s
last picture you took chances are is the
picture of your sandwich never to be
looked at again and you probably took
six different shots of it or is the
picture of you using your selfie stick
before touching it up with all kinds of
Photoshop accessories this is the
problem what has happened to photography
since the advent of the iphone two
things one we have forgotten to live our
lives instead we are worried about
photographing them and second of all
we’ve become a society of narcissus
taking pictures of ourselves three posts
wants to be that guy what is the camera
things inside out this way the carol was
invented to record the truth of events
objectively in 1827 Joseph miss for naps
took their first photograph it’s ground
eight hours of exposure of light to
develop but soon offered Stieglitz turn
photography into an art form in 1885 in
art move and art movement named picture
ilysm had commenced photographers would
manipulate photographs of chemicals to
adjust the way they appear actually
photography is made up of
a Greek roots photo meaning light and
graph you meeting writing and drawing
hence meaning writing and drawing with
light here’s another issue why do we all
like to use the phrase capturing a
moment when they speak a photography why
do we all liked use the word capture are
we taking that moment by force seizing
it as if it’s in a cage it’s a better to
caption once instead allow you to
actually visualize them through your
eyes and which your memory instead of
live in it you’ve probably much happy
well without taking that picture save
your film stay in the present it’s a lot
better to experience it with your own
eyes instead of some just instead of
some digital camera or just a flimsy
piece of paper even though photography
helps treasure a moment it can all feel
all the emotion into that one picture
there are times in their places and
memories you feel a special or precious
to you but he my advice when you take
too many pictures someone will give you
a warning mom stop doing that I want to
play digging fishes instead of living
that’s not something you want to devote
yourself to I’m afraid Dorothea Lange’s
quote no longer holds shirt photography
isn’t allowing us to see without a
camera because now we’re you always
behind it not bobbing to look at life
ourselves look I’m not saying you
shouldn’t take pictures but choose the
ones you take recently I spent a week or
two at the fairmont banff springs hotel
in alberta canada is beautiful and
making a castle our family drove up this
gravel road to get a good side of the
hotel surrounded by a corporate of trees
next to a steep slope that led off to a
winding river was a little patch of
sunflowers not that they were the
prettiest patch that i saw the beauty
and delicacy of nature enough even harsh
environments nature still finds a way to
strive I snapped tons of pictures of
these survivors I still find inspiration
in some of them today that’s my point
choose the photographs you’re going to
take make a conscious decision when you
pick up that camera that the experience
playing out before you is when you are
taking in and enjoying and one you’d
like to remember many years from now
take it because this is a moment in time
you want to treasure my capture so when
that one one is past your some now you
can hold that photo in your hand and
remember the people you have loved in a
moment in that is vanished oh and one
more thing
let’s take a selfie this house are hard
to break thank you [Applause]