What do you see in this photograph? Maybe a tree and its orange leaves ablaze in the sun? Isn't it very normal to assume that what we see is what we understand to be the essence of a photograph? I feel, however, that there is something deeper lurking beneath the facet of colours presented here. There is undoubtedly an intrinsic beauty in the form of the bark and the depth of vision with which the above captures our attention. Yet, the beauty hangs not in the picture itself, but in the moment it captures.
What makes this photo beautiful is to understand that there only exists one tree of that shape in the world. There may be countless other similar trees, but this tree is unique and timeless, for there shall be no other tree that will grow in the same form, bend the same way, branch into such intricacy.
The photograph is also a snapshot of time. This artefact of nature took years to grow, and there can be no other time in the history of the Earth that it will be seen the same way again. Even the lighting and the position of the sun on that patch of leaves is momentary, captured into essence that can be viewed but never experienced again.There can only be one moment in which this photograph was taken, which was experienced only by the photographer.
In my opinion, this is what makes beautiful photographs; captured moments that can never be again. A smile of a child or a tear on the face of soldier, a couple sitting in a sunset, or a tree in the morning sun.
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