World Photography Day 2018

A Different Color

Today is World Photography Day.

It originated when on this day but in 1839 the French government bought the patent for the Daguerreotype process (the invention made by Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1837 that allowed for the first time to record an image in a preservable manner) and gave it to the world for free, as a gift.

This entry is a tribute to the art that has allowed me to express myself even before I knew I wanted to walk this path with it.

If there is something photography has taught me is to always consider a different approach from the one I have at the moment; to always look at things from a new perspective and to push things until they look the way I saw it in my head.

Because of photography I've climbed mountains and gone underground, I've seen the stars while freezing and I've tamed the sun while it tried to melt me, I've captured moments in time no one else has and I have given my own vision to things most people thought they saw before. 

I've witnessed the march of time and everything that has occurred in it and time has witnessed me holding it still for eternity.

Photography was there with me during my moments of joy and success and was there for me during my moments of sorrow and numbness. 

It even waited patiently for me when I got sidetracked. 

It has been my eyes, my voice, my mind and my heart.

It has been the reason to do a lot of things I never thought I'd do. 

Because it's a special feeling when you make a photograph just the way you wanted it to, when you capture that exact moment that will you know that will never come back.

It is said that time is the ultimate enemy in the universe because nothing escapes its decay and it can't be stopped.

But I differ, and so did Daguerre and Niepce.

So it has every single engineer, researcher and scientist across time that has helped to improve the knowledge of mankind to perfect the art of capturing light and preserve it in the form of a photograph. 

So does every photographer out there who shows to others a part of time, history, their mind and the world that we don't know about. In all the ways there is to do so.

Photography is the tool man invented to vanquish time.

Photography is a door to a person's mind and heart.

Photography can be a voice when words fail.

Photography can be a vessel to travel through time.

When time and light are face to face with oblivion, they always have an escape hatch...

A photograph.

You're invited to my Flickr gallery.