KAMERA MATI MENINGGALKAN . . . . . . . . . ?
unless you were born with great [could be abnormally gifted] brain processing power in storing information [in an abnormal manner as probably the case would be] which commonly considered as having unbelievable “photographic memories” which allows you to remember every minute of your past life scenes, than only you would not necessary need to own [well not everyone could effort them sadly said] these wonderful equipments i.e. cameras. cameras may not have the brain as what we human beings have, but they photographically, do own a special way to store memories in the form of ‘photographic memories’.
anyway!, i am here not to talk about the different between humans’ photographic memories and camera photographic memories because i was not born to be specializing in both of the cases. i am now just want to express my gratitude and salute to my already deceased beloved photographic toys which i once owned – NIKON SINGLE-LENS REFLEXES: NIKKORMAT EL, NIKON FM2 AND NIKON EM. they may have GONE FOREVER [ i would be forever sinful for not bordering to bury their death bodies until now], but their “photographic memories” have left me with beautiful treasure of past recorded sweet living memories.
as everyone of you out there surely agree with me for the fact that “photography” is a form of memory. a century ago, EMILE ZOLA [a french novelist] wrote, "you cannot claim to have really seen anything until you have photographed it." in a way what he tried to tell us was that: we can never able to really remember anything until we've seen a photograph.
despite being photographic documenter, cameras normally treasuring images, which photographically creating work of art as a record of a moment in time. at the same time, they let us remember our world in the form of photographic images i.e pictures. and what we see in a picture is always a mix of why we photographed them. one of them is for sure for what we wanted it to be i.e to document our invaluable SWEET MEMORIES of what our past was!
and NOW even though i have lost my beloved SLRs, but with full respect and salute to them [ NIKON SINGLE-LENS REFLEXES: NIKKORMAT EL, NIKON FM2 AND NIKON EM ], they had left me with the pictures above [part of the collections of sweet memories which would forever and ever be with me]:
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