Following a deep dive into online reviews of popular natural attractions, photographer Paul Hempstead reflects on whether technology, mass tourism, and influencer culture has eroded our connection with the natural world.
https://atmos.earth/popular-natural-attractions-and-the-nature-of-critique/
You can not take a photograph of a living Forest.
And why I don't carry a camera.
One can reproduce a tiny bit of it, for 1/60 of a second. But that's not the Forest.
The only media that comes close, is poetry.
“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
― Roland Barthes
@corlin Perhaps for the photographer it can trigger memories and feelings, however to everyone else, it's just a picture.
Yet.
I still have those memories, regardless of a photo.
@corlin @Tacitus_Kilgore Yet still have a moment in time for everyone to see the climate changes as the occur over time. It is a historical snapshot. "A picture is worth a thousand a words"...there's probably some reason for this saying.
It is when one confuses, the memory, or the photo of a thing with the experience of a thing. This is the category error that pushes nature out of the imagination, and into an object that we can mistakenly demand dominion over.
@corlin @Tacitus_Kilgore There's no wrong/right about seeing the entire picture or the small details. iNaturalist app is a good example of seeing the small details (individual pictures of living things throughout the world) providing invaluable information of flora/fauna in specific areas as well as inferring ecosystem health as a whole. Informing us of new & what once were thought 2 be extinct organisms. Focusing on specific stars provides insight into our own sun's health & eventual surmise.
@Victor @Tacitus_Kilgore
Point.
“‘Without constructs, you will unravel few mysteries. Without knowledge of the mysteries, your constructs will fail."