tangible memories

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Hi, i want to thank you for visiting my blog..

Thought of sharing with you the reason i named this blog as "tangible memories" though it sounded like a contradictory statement since memories are not tangible. When i was younger, i loved taking pictures using my family's first compact film camera. After many years, whenever i look at the pictures, they never fail to stir up fond memories of the past. It makes me feel nostalgic which is not a very nice feeling bcos of the longings to travel back to the past yet unable to do so. Well, traveling back to the past is impossible unless you are a "superhero" with special abilities. Though it makes my heart feel restless but as a typical melancholic, i love to dwell in the past.

Nowadays, computer memory storage is so cheap and large, we can store as many movies, music, pictures and data so long our pockets enable us to. But no matter how advanced technology is, it will never be as powerful as human memory because computer memory is made by man but human memory is made by God. We are familiar with short-term and long-term memory but interestingly, there is another part of the human memory called the "sensory memory". Memories can be stirred by our senses such that when we see photos, smell a familiar scent or hear a familiar tune, it can trigger a floodgate of memories and stir our emotions till we are overwhelmed.

Now, as a wedding photographer, i hope to learn as much to captures the most important event in one's life (oops, mistake, it's "two persons' life"), to make these moments tangible in the form of photographs.. Well.. I guess it's a process of learning, a never-ending journey and my journey begins here...