A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

I saw a movie preview of a new Nicholas Cage film called 'Knowing Is Everything' a few weeks ago that depicted a 1959 setting. There was a schoolteacher instructing the classroom to 'Draw a picture of what you think the future will look like'. It made me wonder what pictures would be drawn. It also encourages me to do a drawing today of what I think the future will be. I want to try that exercise. It might even be a good one to do on New Years Eve: Draw a picture of what you think 2009 will look like.

My above photo that I posted today might be historic one day. No one will have a huge laptop at a Cafe. If anything it will be a smaller gadget pinned to the lapel of his coat, shirt or eyeglass frame, no?

It is true that a picture is worth a thousand words. That is why I take a photo every day. As time goes by we lose touch with what was. A photo is history and many times our very own personal history. This might be a good time to add a link to the old time classic song 'As Time Goes By':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIiAdHGi3AI

"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
--Wynn Bullock

'A picture is worth a thousand words' is a proverb that refers to the idea that complex stories can be described with just a single still image. Most photographic images are more influential than a substantial amount of text. It also aptly characterizes the goals of visualization where large amounts of data must be absorbed quickly. In essence another part of your brain is used when you examine a photograph more closely.

If you look again at my above photo it may even inspire a story. Who is the man? What is he doing on his computer? Is he sending an electronic message, applying for a job or browsing for Russian mail order brides? I encourage you to tell me your version of the story (in a thousand words or less). Let the fun begin.

Meanwhile, I will keep taking pictures.

As Albert Einstein once said:
“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”