A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. Photography is the ability to freeze time without disturbing life. What is meant by that phrase is that when a photo is taken, that precise moment is forever captured to be revisited at the viewer’s leisure. When a photographer takes an image it is very different than when a friend tells you, “ Lets take a selfie!” Although, both a photographer and one capture that moment in time, a photographer tries to tell a story or a message as to look who I’m with; which with in itself is telling a story. Professional photographers want you to see what they feel, see and convince you that it is how you should feel about their subject. In all reality there is no difference between a professional photographer and a person with a point and shoot or a cell phone besides that a professional…
Photographs have become a powerful tool to spread the news that the everyday person cannot see at first hand, yet pictures can lie. Images have a role to portray the raw truth. Yet, when an image is retouched it no longer tells the original story; it tells the story with more extravagant details that were not there in the first place. Thus making it a false reality the photographer wants the observer to see. Pictures are meant to be used to give context to certain aspects words cannot fully…
Art is a way to express yourself, whether it 's through feelings or trying to say something without saying anything. That’s why the saying go 's “A picture is worth a thousand words” but I like to think so can food. I love and prefer my mother 's cooking more than anybody in the world. If food was a canvas, my mom would be Picasso or Van Gogh. I would say there 's probably hundreds of food choices that can either express our identity or aspects or even both. Out of that long list of food…
Apple. As you read the word “apple” your brain makes an association between the five calligraphic symbols strung together into a word that produces a mental image of a fruit. Precision of language is often essential in communication because another suggestion of those five letters is the multi-billion dollar computer company founded by Steve Jobs: *APPLE. Everyone has heard the cliché: “a picture is worth a thousand words.” The question is: what words? Every word represents a unique idea or…
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” However, media does not transmit the appropriate thousand words that they should in their images. The different broadcasting forms have corrupted the perception of beauty into something surreal, incredible, and, very often, unhealthy. It is no secret that beauty standards portrayed in pictures from magazines, and other similar mediums, make adolescent girls vulnerable to these false representations of beauty early in their age. Beauty fabrications are…
It’s a simple word with a million layers. It’s something I’ve grown to appreciate and understand, but if I am fortunate enough to go on this service trip I know that this appreciation and understanding will only grow. I thank Gwynedd for bring me joy, showing me who I really am, and helping me grow everyday. This merciful community has given me so much and I know by going on this service trip I will be able to give something back. I’ve received mercy from mercy, and if I get to go on this…
“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This phrase is very common, but it has lost meaning because of its frequent use. However, the significance of this phrase can be better understood by analyzing works of art. Throughout the years, painting has been used by many artists to express their feelings. For these artists, a picture is worth a thousand words because they use a painting to express the feelings that they were not able to express with words. Specifically, the painter Frida Kahlo is…
cell phones to be in a car at once, along with iPods, laptops, DVD players, an abundance of distractions. The picture shown above shows just how easy, common, and dangerous distractions can be. If you were to just observe people while driving, you would notice a young lady at a stop light applying lipstick, a business man on a very important phone call, a mother attending to her children, someone taking a bite out of a burger as they go about their day. Then if you asked these same people if…
makes the dull and boring sketches of a relationship turn into something of beauty. My Dad Carroll Cannon III, Is my hero because he pushes me to be my best in any circumstance, he helps and guides me, and is always there for me. “When the world says give up, hope whispers try one more time,” If this quote is true hope must be my dad. My Dad pushes me to try whatever I want and he will help me do whatever I want. He would follow me to the ends of the earth and 5 times longer, just so he can…
The TED Talks between Manuel Lima, “A Visual History of Human Knowledge,” and Fabian Oefner, “Psychedelic Science,” are completely different on their topics. “An image is worth more than a thousand words.” (Oefner 0:10) An image can be interpreted different ways, it just depends on the perspective of the person. Sometimes images can leave people speechless. Although Lima and Oefner had completely different TED Talks, both Lima and Oefner managed to use visual aids in their presentations. Both…