A Photograph

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What is a photograph? Is it a collection of crystals, or a collection of pixels? Is it a memory that we want to cherish or something we would love to forget? Is it abstract or concrete? Can we identify what is in the photograph or is it undefineable? Does it matter? Is a good picture of a bad thing good, is a bad picture of a good thing bad? Is a great picture the work of an artist or the engineer who designed the camera? When we take a photograph are we capturing the moment or expressing an emotion? When a person views a photograph it is through his own lens, not the lens of the photographer, carrying his own likes and dislikes, his history, how he feels at the moment, and worrying about what he will do it the future. We can not please everyone who looks at our photographs, we can only please ourselves.