{"id":2845,"date":"2010-02-09T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T07:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2010-02-10T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T08:00:25","slug":"i-dont-stand-in-front-of-landmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"I don’t stand in front of landmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone remembers the horrible slide shows that they would sit through. Where you would see the same people with the same expression in front of different landmarks. When I was younger and traveled with my parents, that was the kind of photos we took with a film camera. Those photos would be developed and put into an album never to be seen again.<\/p>\n

I remembered once when we visited Boston that my mom insisted on taking a picture with a statue at the Harvard campus. I was embarrassed. It was the same posture and expression she had at everything else we had taken picture of during the tour. It was dull, boring, and mundane.<\/p>\n

When I got my own digital camera in college, I resolved never to do the same. Every picture has a purpose. With the advent of distributed pictures easily accessible on the Internet, was there any reason to take a picture of something that we can easily find…a better shot on the web?<\/p>\n

While in Hong Kong, I hated taking pictures like these, but I could tell my aunt was not used to my liberal, creative ways of photo-taking (and would the Chin Lin Nunneries be ok with my sudden creativity?)<\/p>\n

\"Chin<\/a><\/p>\n

\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a reason why Toad<\/a> is in my pictures. There is no point in taking a picture unless I can truly make it mine<\/i>. If I take the same shot as someone else, it’s a waste of digital space. Especially with my canon powershot elph that’s struggling behind the times.<\/p>\n

This is also why Toad was in “costume” at my friend’s wedding in Hong Kong:<\/p>\n

\"Toad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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