Everyone has a special ability, a special talent, a special goodness that sets him or her apart and it is these differences that foster the making of friends, besides creating a monotonous society as well. If everyone were similar we would be at each other's throats all the time.
Now I have friends who have great interest in photography.... but there are lots of people to whom a shutter speed is how fast you pull down a window when it starts to rain, me for instance!
Good, well-composed pictures are an enduring delight and it is photography that made the National Geographic what it has become. We all love to take pics and most of us are satisfied with the automatic cameras when we travel where all you do is point and shoot. Till we see pics of the same scenes taken by a person proficient in the art of taking photographs!
Different people have different aptitudes and interests.
How many times have we met people at little parties at home, who are unconsciously super singers and we ask them how come they don't compete? There are women I know who dance (not ball room, mind, but the classical ones of South India ) so well but they do it in the privacy of their homes or for their children and husband or mom and dad and siblings...and shy away when a lucky visitor suggests they perform in public too.
If you have long and slender fingers, they say you have a talent for anything that involves the use of the fingers like playing a keyboard, drawing, painting and so on...there are so many talents that exist unknown till a friend brings them out and you stand in admiration and wonder. (Recall Gray’s “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air”).
Everybody has a special talent that sets him apart. Now when I say “special,” I’d really like you (the reader, if any!) to have a look at this amazing artist, Niall Young from the U.K, who makes pictures using ONLY millions of tiny dots!
http://dancing-for-beginers.blogspot.com/
-Balu
08/08/08
Now I have friends who have great interest in photography.... but there are lots of people to whom a shutter speed is how fast you pull down a window when it starts to rain, me for instance!
Good, well-composed pictures are an enduring delight and it is photography that made the National Geographic what it has become. We all love to take pics and most of us are satisfied with the automatic cameras when we travel where all you do is point and shoot. Till we see pics of the same scenes taken by a person proficient in the art of taking photographs!
Different people have different aptitudes and interests.
How many times have we met people at little parties at home, who are unconsciously super singers and we ask them how come they don't compete? There are women I know who dance (not ball room, mind, but the classical ones of South India ) so well but they do it in the privacy of their homes or for their children and husband or mom and dad and siblings...and shy away when a lucky visitor suggests they perform in public too.
If you have long and slender fingers, they say you have a talent for anything that involves the use of the fingers like playing a keyboard, drawing, painting and so on...there are so many talents that exist unknown till a friend brings them out and you stand in admiration and wonder. (Recall Gray’s “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air”).
Everybody has a special talent that sets him apart. Now when I say “special,” I’d really like you (the reader, if any!) to have a look at this amazing artist, Niall Young from the U.K, who makes pictures using ONLY millions of tiny dots!
http://dancing-for-beginers.blogspot.com/
-Balu
08/08/08
2 comments:
Niall is indeed an artist par-excellence..Sui generic. I was amazed that all his pictures consist only of millions of dots.
Cheers
preeti
very well written as always. late comment i know ut well better late than never:)
well said too that there are man who have talent but shy awa from bringing it out to the public. we must also realise that these talents slowly fade away unless it is nutured. then mabe people will take every opportunity that comes their way not for exhibition og their talent but to nuture the talent they have within
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