Nothing Wrong With Snapshot | It’s The Moment That Matters

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | My Son Raphael Crying at His Great-grandfather House | Kuala Penyu Sabah

“A Perfect Photo That is Empty of Any Feeling Will Never Equal a Blurred Photo Full of Emotion.”

– Olivier Föllmi –

I’ve written about making a photograph and taking a photograph lately, so the picture above falls on “Taking a Photograph” category, Why? Because I’ve never make any preparation for the photograph, I just heard my son crying at my father-in-law kitchen(I was upstairs at that time) and I just took the picture without thinking  so much about the background, the messy background and the troublesome backlighting. In this photograph, it’s the moment that matters.

In this scenario if I want to take my son and put him into a better position so that I can have a nice uncluttered background, then I will miss the moment, my son will probably stop crying or he will start to cry louder, I don’t want to interface with his action, I just want to record the moment. It’s not a nice beautiful looking photograph to look but to me personally as a parent, this photograph is priceless.