PICTURES.

u LEANNE FAITH G. ORONOS

If I were asked what the greatest thing to have ever been invented was, I’d answer “cameras’’ every single time. To be able to freeze a moment of your life and have it on a piece of photo paper or put up on a wall in your home to be remembered for a lifetime was an idea that I think surpasses any other genius thing man has made- ever.

A camera, by definition, is a device used for taking and recording images, producing photographs and videos. I remember looking through old photo books that contain pictures of me from when I was barely a toddler, and I can barely remember the photos being taken. The commonly asked question when being shown a picture is “Do you remember?” Though my response was “no” since I was just an infant during the time the photos were taken, I was glad to see those moments preserved in a piece of photo paper, to get a gist of what I was like as a baby.

There was never a special occasion in my life that a camera wasn’t present. Graduations, birthdays, competitions, and the like. A single camera click takes a picture of a time that will eventually pass by and makes a physical copy of a memory to be cherished for a lifetime. Although they are mere pieces of paper with a bunch of pixels combined to make a single image, they hold as much sentiment as one wants it to bear.

My fondness for picture taking and cameras followed me all throughout my life leading up to the present. Taking pictures with my friends and or my family to carry a reminder of that time we took the pictures in my device, taking pictures of things that I think look pretty to have an accurate image of what it looked like, and capturing photos of my dog doing whatever just because.

And it’s not just taking pictures I’m fond of. Seeing pictures of my friends and people who are a good part of my life whether it be a selfie, a picture of their pets, the sky, or them just being happy in general is something I’m glad to see. Liking the pictures they post of them is my way of saying I’m happy for them. Sharing and going through photos with the ones I hold closest to me, laughing and crying while reminiscing those times are one of, if not my favourite things to do.

To live in a time where really good cameras exist, I feel contented.