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Travel Photography Scholarship 2012entry

Ghana | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | 5 photos

Something about photography has always intrigued me. People would look at my pictures and say, "Your pictures make the world look more beautiful than it actually is." I realize that people say that as a compliment, but I've always found myself disagreeing. I see so much beauty in this world, and I try to capture it in a shot, but I always find myself not satisfied, not able to capture the beauty in its wholeness. I love photography because it reveals the beauty of nature (of humans and of the world). No matter how good a picture, I don't believe it can even come close to describing a fraction of nature's magnificence. No matter how good a camera, I don't believe it can ever come close to seeing what human eyes can see. I love photography because it creates not only beautiful art, but ability to see the beauty that it already there. And I guess that's ultimately what I want to do with photography. To let people see, and say, "look how beautiful this photography is. But look beyond and see how magnificent and glorious our world is."