Words are my medium, but lately I`ve become sort of obsessed with a photo sharing app called Instagram, and the mind of sharing bits and pieces of the reality around me through images.
I`m kind of surprised how delighted I am by the images in my feedthe photos shared by others still more so than the ones I take. Jason is the one who got me hooked.
He signed up first, showing me the first 12 or so photos he had taken. I was so intrigued by his train on the maneven a world we mostly share seen by the eyes of somebody I love well. His accumulation of photos says so much about who he is, and what he finds interesting, funny and beautiful.
The power to snap photos on my call and part them via Facebook and Twitter isn`t new to me, but until lately I was never so mindful of what`s around me and how I might conquer and express it. I couldn`t help but wonder what makes using this app different. Telling a report in a snap
After thinking about it for a while, I decided that Instagram photos don`t just get an imagesomehow they go beyond that, capturing a mode and singing a story. The square format makes you think differently about composition, and the filters (which are really fun to work with) let you drive the humour to another level.
The answer is a little story, in an instant. It`s not a figure of a porch (above), it`s a report about a woman fetching a peaceful respite from her work, eating lunch on the porch in June, when the garden lettuce is at its best.
This isn`t a photograph of a pool, it`s a report about a public gathering place during the hot, lazy days of summercooling off the saame way we did when I was a kid, and my mom was a kid_
Here`s a tale about a girl orienting herself and who she is in the point where she`s growing up_
And this history is about friendshipembarking on adventures together, rather than alone_
Being more attuned to what I see around me, and seeing scenes and pictures in new ways, as stories, is subtly changing the way I put the lyric I compose and carry the stories I tell. I`m thinking more about climate and color, and the details that have an image rich.
How do images impact your quarrel? How can you challenge and re-focus what (and how) you see?
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