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Monday, June 19, 2006
Photography and Food
Photography and Food
Pictures and food dominate my travel. And lots of hot coffee.
Well, before you turn the page, there is some logic to it. Rather, my perspective of it.
We travel to please our senses. Completely different input to our brains is refreshing. Our senses i.e. sight, sound, smell, taste, touch – are used to the daily mundane routine and the brain is tuned into monotony. The creation of ideas/thoughts in the brain gets into the same routine and eventually we feel that life is just, stuck.
Most people need recreation. “Re creation” of their selves. A nice movie & a dinner or some beer-over-football would generally do, but over longer periods of time, we need a bigger break. The senses need radically different inputs to recreate the brain and its impressions.
Getting my point? Yes, that is the reason people take big vacations and go out to explore places, cities, hills, seas and forests.
They go out and absorb the new sights and sounds and feel refreshed. But sights & sounds only satisfy the eyes and ears. Capture those moments on still and video cameras. Even after 5 years you will actually feel the place when you watch those pictures/videos.
The same thing goes with the tongue. Taste the local food, don’t compare it with your native cuisine. Just enjoy the food as it is. Remember those tastes, find out those recipes. Come back home and try out those recipes after 2 years. Those lovely memories will surely be rekindled when you stoke your taste buds.
It is like recording on tape. Your sensory organs record the images in your brain and play them for you. Use this mechanism intelligently and you’ll find new ways of recreation !
Pictures and food dominate my travel. And lots of hot coffee.
Well, before you turn the page, there is some logic to it. Rather, my perspective of it.
We travel to please our senses. Completely different input to our brains is refreshing. Our senses i.e. sight, sound, smell, taste, touch – are used to the daily mundane routine and the brain is tuned into monotony. The creation of ideas/thoughts in the brain gets into the same routine and eventually we feel that life is just, stuck.
Most people need recreation. “Re creation” of their selves. A nice movie & a dinner or some beer-over-football would generally do, but over longer periods of time, we need a bigger break. The senses need radically different inputs to recreate the brain and its impressions.
Getting my point? Yes, that is the reason people take big vacations and go out to explore places, cities, hills, seas and forests.
They go out and absorb the new sights and sounds and feel refreshed. But sights & sounds only satisfy the eyes and ears. Capture those moments on still and video cameras. Even after 5 years you will actually feel the place when you watch those pictures/videos.
The same thing goes with the tongue. Taste the local food, don’t compare it with your native cuisine. Just enjoy the food as it is. Remember those tastes, find out those recipes. Come back home and try out those recipes after 2 years. Those lovely memories will surely be rekindled when you stoke your taste buds.
It is like recording on tape. Your sensory organs record the images in your brain and play them for you. Use this mechanism intelligently and you’ll find new ways of recreation !
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