Billions of photographs are taken every day since the digital boom a couple of years back. That makes hundreds of billions in a single year. Reading this statement makes you wonder what significance if any does our own photos have in this tsunami of images. When every corner of the world no matter how remote have been shot to death by nations of snapshooters what is there to really photograph and made the difference? I believe the answer lies within ourselves, our family. One of my most beloved photograph is this one taken not by me but my wife of our daughter Aliya. She was about 4 months old at the time I believe. It is surely not the most earth-shattering photo of our generation but the value lies is the personal nature of the photo. consider this, If you're not from a famous royal family or someone of influence chances are nobody is going to take your family's photo other than you. Im at least happy to know that Aliya will be able to see her likeness as a 4 month old years to come and to me that makes enough significance to the rest of the world. So if you want to take photos of significance to the world, photograph your family. It will be certainly a gem among billions.
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