I am a boring person. Amateur in photography.

Prefers film, but not the cost. Likes digital, but not the weight.

I only like photos that convey an emotion or thought to me.

I don't like photos that are nothing but of women in various insinuating poses.

I think photography is more than mere fantastic equipment. I have seen photos that are perhaps not very well-taken, but the composition makes me sigh. I have also seen photos that are very well-taken, but it is flat and dull and says nothing other than the vanity of the photographer. I know of people with fantastic equipment belonging to both categories, and also of people with simple point-n-shoot camera too.

I also dislike overly photoshopped or cropped photos. That becomes digital art. It sullies the essence of true, original photography.

Photography is an art. It cannot be instilled in a person, although one can learn to appreciate it. But then again, art is subjective.

Maybe I am too narrow-minded. But everyone else is, too.

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People in the painfully bright hall

spoke about religion

in the life of modern man

and about God's place in it.

People spoke in excited voices

like at airports.

I left them:

I opened an iron door over which was written

"emergency" and I entered into

a great tranquility: questions and answers.

- Yehuda Amichai