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[纯粹城事] 摄影。忆
我想,世上再也没有比这个声音更漂亮了。

每每按下快门,"咔嚓"一声,我仿佛又好象谈了一场没有遗憾的恋爱。依稀记得,开始时动机是非常单纯的。那时买了一架数码相机,也没考虑机身功能,只要求外形漂亮轻便。小小一架相机就随着我到处去,拍了一堆相片,因为害怕会忘记美好的东西, 就纯粹把它当成是记录工具。

后来整理照片时,发现其中一些无心之作却可以让我非常着迷,一看就老半天。我想:"若我更加用心去拍,效果应该会更加好吧!"从那时起,在还没有按下快门之前,惊觉自己开始思考。所有的事物,忽然在镜头前变得清晰起来,我渐渐看见颜色,线条,角度,速度,构图。那时刚好认识了一群很棒的摄影师,几次谈话之后,就和他们出外景。起初的任务很简单,就摆几个甫士,为他们的人物摄像 porfolio 作嫁。看着他们扛着漆黑笨重的 DSLR,就好奇了。拿着那架相机, 猛盯着小小的荧光幕,当下就陷进去了。一个月后,头也不回,败了一架 DSLR,很认真的和自己勾手指说,摄影应该是续钢琴后,要和自己一辈子的爱好了。

本身有极端化的性格-Party 时常常是最疯狂的那一个,安静时只想要一个人独处。摄影让我暂时逃离现实,和我的狂想尽情对话。就 IPOD 与相机,常常可以让我独自快活到处乱走一整天。有时会有摄影伙伴,我们也不多说话。就各自拍各自的,偶尔碰头了,就给对方看一看刚才拍了些什么。没有批评,看到喜欢的,就轻轻说声"Great! "

所有的照片对我来说没有美或丑,因为那是一道我通往对方想法的桥梁。放下自己的执着,从根本来了解另一个摄影师的想法,明白他们为什么从某角度取景与构图。这寻找理解的过程,本身已是一种美丽的探索。而开始摄影后,我也学习了惊人的观察能力-原来这位朋友笑起来有浅浅梨涡;另外一个朋友当夕阳光线洒在他的皮肤上时,有着奥妙的光泽;我每天经过的双峰塔在晚上当所有的灯亮起时,有着迷人的线条 ... ... 生活中原本不起眼的小事物,让我处处惊喜。这些发现让我在回忆相关人事物时,影象顿时鲜明起来,把一切短暂在脑海里化为永恒。

就这样,埋首在一张又一张的照片里,我不断认识自己,建立自己,然后再推翻自己。

“Photography is a form of memory. A century ago, the French novelist Emile Zola wrote, “You cannot claim to have really seen anything until you have photographed it. ” He might have said, you can’t claim to have really remembered anything until you’ve seen a photograph. A photographic image, a work of art as a record of a moment in time, is the way we remember our world. Memory, of course, is itself a work of art. And what we see in a photograph is always a mix of what we bring to it - how we feel about the subject, how we respond to what we see - and what the photographer has created out of light and movement and place.” - From Photographic Memory by William Claxton.

摘于《薈彧亭》2.0 晶滢 ★ 21.10.2007

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