Learning how to See with Your Heart

Photography is about lighting and that's the technical part....

Often photographer has been sucked in the technical details about how to capture an images and has forgotten the very basic of capturing the moment... that is to feel the shots.

For example, the elusive moments of love from a kissing couple goes beyond the unity of the 2 lips...

We often see a kissing shots for a wedding couple but yet, it seems that it was just 2 lips touching and missing out the important side of the emotion. It is often a very nice and dramatic images graphically and it is technically excellent but it seems there is no word is coming from the image... and we all know a picture can speak a thousand words. Without the "voice" an image won't be an image.

It is often a challenge to forget yourself and forget about the technical aspect of the photography and indulge yourself in feeling the shots.

Just finish watching a movie call "Take The Lead"... I remember vividly remember one of the lines....

The guy is asking the girl... "how come you look different when you dance?"

The answer was... "When I dance, I enter the world of my own and everything seems silent"

Very simple lines, but it teaches us the meaning behind go beyond how to dance by transforming yourself and allow yourself to enter the "other dimensions" which allows one to forget about everything...

Sometime I do feel that I am lost when I am taking the pictures... lost in words, lost in thoughts... sometime when a very warm moments presented right in front of my eyes, it never fails to move my heart and subconsciously the images are being captured. I do learn how to hide my tears....

I thank God that gives me a soft heart that being moved easily and I thank God that I have given Love and I could give to my Children.

I do miss the soft voice of Alex just before he goes to sleep saying... Papa Love you (should mean Papa love me), Mama love you, Ti ti (little brother, in Mandarin) Love you... I do miss the middle of the night calling of the boys wanting something... a hug or milk... so genuine, so pure... as if they are speaking about what they feel...

Children are wonderful and we can learn a lot from them... something that we have forgotten as we grow up... that is to "Feel"....