Pictures: Sharing Some Insights

I have been to many places in Brazil and a couple of places in the world: Argentina, Bolivia, Korea, Paraguay and Peru.

In all those places I was always interested in meeting the people, the real side of each place not really the places prepared for national or international visitors. It's a personal trend.

Like one time I was in NY for a week, for example, upon returning to Florida I showed some friends my pictures. They were amazed I did not have a single picture of famous the places, you know, the post cards from the big apple everyone visits normally.

Well, I want to visit with the locals and see how they live, how they do their thing. I actually do not have many pictures of a famous place from anywhere in the world. Follow me, if I type at the box of any search device (Alta Vista, Yahoo, Google) "Liberty Bell" I can get, in one place alone, more than 450,000 pictures of that beautiful bell ( from Google: Results 1 - 18 of about 473,000 for libertybell. (0.09 seconds) ).

Now don't take me wrong, I did go to places like that with friends. I observed their reactions, heard about their impressions, pride and the like of that - that was great! I do have some pictures of those moments. They are my treasures.

What I propose here for us to think a bit. In an age of easy digital cameras to use, when it is just so easy to take so many pictures, we should be more selective and really put the cameras to work for us. How many times have you come home from some party or trip and you had 300 some pictures to go through? What did you do with all those images? Well, allow me to guess. You probably ( like I do some times, I confess) downloaded them all from the camera, looked quickly through then and forgot them there. (If not in the memory card without even looking through!)

I have some suggestions: get informed, practice, show your art.