Saturday, August 20, 2011
Well there's a high chance I've posted these pictures before, especially in the past when I was more active in blogging and while I was free to use the computer everyday. But today, I have a point to make. These pictures were taken when I was in sec 3, and look how kid I looked then! Well, during those days, actually I never understood why people said I looked like a kid. From my perspective, I always felt I looked normal. Sure, I knew I looked young. But how young, I didn't know. I didn't know I looked that young. As I was looking through these pictures today, I'm quite amazed at how little boy I looked last time! Haha really looked like a kid!
But the point is this: at any present point of time, I suppose you'll never be able to see what's wrong with yourself until at a later date when you look back. I had never thought I was so small and little-boyish in the past. Now I understand why people said I was a really small boy. Perhaps even today, I would be wrong to say I've grown up. There's a high chance that 2 years down the road when I review the pictures taken in 2011, I'd go (once again), "Oh man! That's how I looked in the past!" It seems that these changes are so gradual that you really don't notice them. You'll need pictures to allow you some "time travel" before you realise the stark differences in appearance.
Another thing I have learnt is that memories are important. It's been such a joy to look back at these pictures of 2008, recall the reasons for these photos or the events that these photos were taken from and enjoy the whole experience all over again. It's very likely that we're always taking our present situation for granted. Who takes pictures of every moment of their lives? Nobody. Why? Because we are living in it, and we see no reason to take pictures of it. Of course, it wouldn't be practical taking pictures of every moment, that would be a bit too much. But in short periods of time, we should always take a picture or two for keepsake. Some time later, we'll be thankful we did and smile at the past and how great things were. Till this date, I still think those days in barker were the best of my life so far and I sorely miss those times. Come on, every barker guy agrees with me that poly/JC is no where near the barker life we once lived. But we have to move on in life and then, probably the only way we can relive those times are through pictures. Pictures provide memories of the past. In effect, they are like the time machines which science-fiction has always imagined.
Have a great day!
These are some of the pictures I've taken this year with my Nikon D90. We went to the train tracks before it closed for good this year. Like everyone else, took some pictures to preserve the memories. So there's ronald there, and the second picture is one which I managed to zoom very far into the end of the train tracks, where we can spot a lone man walking the tracks. The third picture is my attempt at being artistic hahaha. Well all the pictures are not-edited, so obviously the 'artistic' shot wouldn't even be close to other people's pictures.
The fourth picture here is the picture which I think is the best, out of a few pictures I took during a day where the sunset produced a brilliant spectrum of colours. Something I watched on discovery channel told me it's because of the sun's light sort of 'curving' around the Earth's atmosphere, and the gases only allow the red wavelength to pass through, giving rise to the red colour of the sky. Of course in this case, there were a few other colours from the spectrum too. But whatever the case, it looks very good huh. The camera wasn't so good at capturing the exact sight I saw on that day. The autofocus and lighting correction distorted the real view quite significantly, so this is the best I could snap.