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Why You should Immediately Take a Photograph of this Article Instead of Relying on Your Memory

When I think about taking photos, my heart leaps. When I have taken a successful photo, I feel like I have transformed time into an object.

4 min readMar 12, 2022

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Why Do People Take Photos?

Street Photography in Berlin, by Sean P. Durham, 2022
Berlin, 2022. Copyright; Sean P. Durham

Much of what we do in life passes us by, and we fill ourselves with happy memories and regrets. Taking photos of events in our lives helps us to reinforce the memories of the good times.

Life is fast. The camera helps us to hold moments important to us. We can’t stop time, but we can capture fragments of it. The skill of using a camera is to develop the ability to look and see which moments are worth keeping.

Life itself is a mystery. The world presents us with a simple matter, go to work, pay bills, be productive. Keep following a routine.

It’s when we break that routine by slowing down, and taking a different road, that we look at the world on our own terms, and we notice how important it is to capture what we see. To remember.

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