Philosophical thought of the day:

[partly]

"The camera isn't about truth, it's about the illusion of truth."

Do you know why "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"? Because a picture is a story, it isn't a set idea. It's an illusion of something and a thousand words will barely be enough for one person to completely explain what the picture means or represents to him/her.

A picture isn't about truth because it only captures an image. Truth is in people, not pictures.

Comments

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

For someone like me, a picture sets off a scramble of words in my brain, all aimed at describing what I'm seeing in the most minute detail, whether I need to create it from whole cloth or I know the circumstance. As verbose as I am, I'd say a picture is worth about 6k words, but no one would get the reference:)