When Joey told me that I didn't need to do the video anymore, I felt mixed. It was surely a relief to hear that I had one less deadline to meet, but it felt awful as a friend. Why did I first pick up the camera? It was to create beautiful memories. Through the journey, I asked myself, what more useless is these bunch of photos if they were for the things in the past. Meaningless as a gust of the wind, meaningless as yesterday's newspapers. But what distinguishes yesterday's newspapers and a history text?

Photos are created for memories. One of which is creating memories that traps you in the past. the one where you constantly look at how you were before. Whether happy or sad, you are teleported back into your distant mind, starts of as a vaguely familiar setting. As you scan through the photo, you fit in every detail into your set. Then comes the sounds, the colors, the smell, the touch. All five senses have gathered and you relive the past.

True enough, those are one of the best standards of photography. What I call a 4D photograph.

However, what I'm currently perusing is future-photography. This is the kind where you make memories into dreams. An image so powerful, it impacts the mind and triggering the logical and emotional side of people to do a certain action or change a certain mindset.

I wish to give such a present to my friends. If only someone could give me such a present as well.

Come to think of it. Maybe there is one. :)

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