When taking a quick picture of your friends or family you don't necessairly think you are making art but I still believe that snapshots deserve our attention. They capture us in the moment and supply us with a memory of a moment that was special to us whether we realize it then or not. A candid or goofy picture can capture who we really are when we are with the people we feel comfortable around and are able to let go of our inhibitions. A posed picture may show how we want to be seen. The ability to be able to look through pictures from our childhood allows us to remember more than we probably would be able to without them. In 20 years we will still be able to look back out ourselves in the pictures we are taking now. Pictures serve as a historical documentary of our lives. Especially with new technologies like scanning, photoshop, and Facebook we can have these images for the rest of our lives and even pass them onto our children.
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