PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

    I´m used to smiling for pictures because throughout my entire life my dad has had a camera. Whenever I think of him, I picture him trying to find the perfect angle. My dad is passionate about many things: reading books, cooking, gazing the stars, being with his family, and learning about new technologies and gadgets. It was until now that I was trying to write this paper that I realized that perhaps taking pictures is his way to collect all his interests in one big hobby, for example, when he bakes or cooks an extremely difficult dish he likes to gather the evidence of all the process he went through and he manages this by using his camera. You see, it´s not that he has had the same camera for the past 18 years or so, but that he invests days, even months, waiting for the perfect offer, for the newest update, or even the newest model to come up. And he buys it. This doesn´t mean we have gazillions of cameras, because my mom always resells the old ones or convinces him of getting rid of them because they are too obsolete. But I like his constant eagerness when learning about the lighting, the color, the lenses, even the purpose of each button. I will be honest, he wasn´t really good when he started. And nowadays technologies help you with all the backlighting and zooming in or out; there are even cameras that save the facial characteristics of family members and make folders with all their pictures, it´s like a super private Facebook page. But I will give him credit, he has perfected his technic. Well, he still takes a lot of time to take the pictures, my closest friends know this. And he forgets to take pictures with us, I don´t know if he prefers being behind the camera or he´s just distracted. But I can see the happiness it brings to him when he gets an amazing shot of an insect flying, or the foggy mountains of winter, or my lazy dog just laying at our porch. It is his way of admiring beauty and it makes me very happy that he likes sharing this with me.