Paris and Pictures

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Sometimes when i look at the pictures that i have taken over the past few months , i do really like some of the amazing pictures i have taken and i am pretty proud of myself for being to have all these pictures. Some people have told me that i take pretty pictures but professionally where do i stand and that is the question i always asked myself . How does one evaluate a picture properly ? Take this picture for example . Taken inside of the church at chartres and i love the haunting quality of the picture (been shooting in black and white lately) and i think it would be considered as a nice picture amongst te general public , if one were to crticise it , what would one say ?

Maybe i should be more confident of my work or maybe it is because i have been taking all these pictures with my digital camera and i kinda feel like a fraud compared to those SLR carrying people . Not to mention i know jack-shit about things like aperature and what have you. i just nice pictures and creating them and sharing them . Perhaps this is one of the motivations behind me pushing for a photo exhibition when i get back to school . One to share pictures and also i think it is a nice closure to the entire paris experience . i have listed down a few pictures i must capture for the exhibition and doing planning for the exhibition as been really an interesting creating process , presenting a set of work in a coherent manner and to attempt to replicate the parisian experience and balancing what is personal and what is suitable en masse .

I'll be back in about 3 weeks and i know it is going to just fly past like that and it feels so nostalgic and i just want to go out sit and stare and absord every single detail of the place . Even till now , i am finding new things to go and interesting places to visit . Sigh , i want to stay here and yet i know i have to leave . I think it is also why i've been listening to coldplay for the past couple of days surrounding myself in this cocoon of beautiful melancholy .

I dunno why i am speaking about goodbyes so soon but i think it would make the final goodbye easier to bear .