It still blows my mind to think of this. How photos capture light and freeze a visible moment in time... not only does it allow us to experience moments of the past, it also allows us to experience moments we never had as a continous present!
Like this picture here. I was there when I took that picture and yet I was unable to experience the fraction of a second of my daughter Lily's hair suspended so wonderfully in the air like this. At the time it was a fleeting moment where her hair was suddendly tossed by the wind while we were climbing on playground equipment. I wouldn't have noticed it with everything going on.
But here in this picture that snapshot of time is held indefinitely... that fleeting snippet of reality was captured and recorded by a light sensor on my phone and it allows me to experience that fraction of a second for the rest of my life. And that moment of the past is here for me to experience in a new way.
I think photos are a sort of time travel if you think about it.
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