So Cliche It Must Be Love

"I love you more than when you began reading this sentence!"

They say hate is a strong word. Love is just as strong, if not stronger. Yet it gets thrown around like nothing. It is constantly being taken out of context and supplemented as pleased. Granted, It could be applied to many things. “I love to dance because it’s my passion. Or “I love to sleep because my body is sleep deprived.” Those are simple forms of love. Love is different in people and in things. For instance, the way a teacher loves their student. They way someone loves their dog. The way a child loves their blankie.

                What love is not is immature and naive relationships or what I like to call “middle school relationships.” For starters, I don’t understand the concept of “going out” in middle school. I mean, Where you going? No where far obviously or at least not without the permission of your parents and car pooling to a public place like the mall or movies.  The best part is spending a whole week in a “relationship” because it’s cool. If you make it two weeks then you must be in love! Wrong. As exciting as it may be it most likely is not love. It’s probably indigestion.

Girls are especially fond of that word. Countless times a girl will say to another girl “love you” after almost everything.  Many conversations are ended with “love ya” “Luv U” “heart you” and so on and so forth. We cannot forget the symbols for love. “<3” or numbers “143”

                I think people should not take Love out of context because when used properly it can be powerful. I yet to have fully experience this. I hear it’s worth the wait. Don’t tell someone you love them because it’s the thing to do.

"The true meaning of Love:
It it's because of his eyes or his lips or his great body, it's not love...It's lust.
It it's because of his intelligence, it's not love...It's admiration.
If it's because he cries every time you try to leave, it's not love...It's pitty.
If it's because he makes you forget to study and sleep, it's not love...It's infactuation.
...Love is when you do not know why you seem to be atrracted to a person...Love has its reason...and the reason is unknown."

Photography

You don't take a photograph.  You ask, quietly, to borrow it.  ~Author Unknown

Photography is very unique. It can be a hobby, a profession, a lifestyle, or a security blanket. You can freeze time and memories and capture the essence of the world from every view. I do not consider myself a photographer, yet. Although, I do strive for one day mastering this art. I have loved cameras and pictures my whole life. It wasn’t until 2008 that I purchased my  first DSLR, Nikon d70. Before then, I was using a crappy, barley digital, camera I had found in an old closet. I should have not under estimated the content that came from that camera for it was the one I used to take my first two-time awarding winning photo. That just goes to show that even the simplest of photos can go along way.

I didn’t really start to grasp the art that I loved until my freshmen year of high school. During my second semester, I was granted the permission to take an independent study of the photos program my school offered. Normally you would have to take the prerequisite class, essentials of art, and be at least a sophomore. I took the prerequisite my first semester. The economy kind of dumped on my school leaving us with budget cuts. I knew that last year would most likely be the last year photos would be offered at my school. I was right. I was the first freshmen and one of the last students to be in photos. It’s a damn shame because I learned a lot.

The photos class was all about old fashion film and dark rooms. I learned how to roll and develop film, how to operate in a dark room using enlargers, and how to develop the final product of a photo. On average I would only develop 3-5 photos a class period. Photo means light. To master how to manipulate light is how you master photography. You can’t rely on the automatic switches located on a digital camera because then you don’t really know what you are photographing. A manual B&W camera does not allow you to do that. You have to learn what light works and what doesn’t. Unlike a digital photography where you can view, edit, and delete, a film camera you have to wait until after development in which case could be too late. I think anyone who is interested in photography or becoming a photographer should learn the dark room process. To kind of get the basic and back ground knowledge of what photography is about. You learn the rules so you learn how to break them. I encourage anyone who decides to pursue photography to do it. But remember, just because you own a camera doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a camera owner.