Photographs - a little pieces of our souls

In the times when mobile phone was just the thought, there was something special in making photos. Black and white photo was everything. Real art was to show the colors in black and white and put the piece of a soul on the photograph.

There is a belief that when we make photographs the camera takes a bit of our soul with her, it freezes a piece of it on a paper. Today it is different. There's  just a few people that develop their photos, and that little pieces of our soul stays hidden behind big amount of gigabytes of data.

In the old days photographs were waiting for the right moment for hours, good angle in the sun, a breath of wind to take that perfect one out of 24 or 36 photos. Today everything is on the click of a button. We are clicking wherever we are, on a journey, on the street, at work, in the bathroom... Selfie cameras are the main thing today. And where did the charm of photographing went? On social networks, unfortunately! We are not taking pictures to create memories to look at them when we grow old with tears in our eyes, remembering the happiest times, we are doing it to collect likes on the photos which we'll forget in a few days that we ever made them, and never look at them again.

Fortunately it does not go for everybody, but for the most of the population. There are still photographers who do not go through landscapes with just clicking on everything, but they're patient waiting for that right moment.

Looking at the old photos of my family I realize how much they are worth. How nice it is when you can see how your grandmother and great grandmother lived a century ago thanks to that photos, and realize that they were once young and beautiful and had the same dreams and hopes like you do today. Times had changed, but people - not that much! That is why I love old photographs!

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