There are no intermediaries between taking photos and enjoy them: no developing laboratories and printing processes.
You download your photos to computer, store them into a CD or DVD, see and even directly print them.
If you are smart enough in using computer, you can retouch your photos adding to them what you weren’t able to catch: once that was a matter for professional photographs.
It doesn’t meaning that a digital camera change us in a professional or in an artist. For that, knowledge, expertise, skills and even genius are needed.
Nevertheless, it is today more easy than ever to enjoy making photos, to catch moments of your real life and store them forever.
Today, a lot of people experience traveling, for tourism or for business, for enjoy themselves or as a part of own daily economic struggle. Jets can bring you, in a matter of few hours, towards sites where culture and social life are completely extraneous, unrelated.
Sure, commonly used humankind made objects become day after day more and more similar: that is the price (or
the advantage?) that we are paying to globalization.
Nevertheless heritages and way of life are still different.
What can be caught in few days or few hours of a travel are only glimpses of the complex reality of the social life; often the evidences are monuments, buildings, landscapes or natural wildlife.
Photos are an attempt to freeze, to make still those moments, but they are only partial views.
Neighborhoods are so well known and common that often we think that they don't worth the cost of a film photogram and of a print.
Now, digital photo, gives the freedom to explore the neighborhoods: the advantage of the knowledge helps in fixing them in uncommon, unusual way that often are more true than the common tourist views.
Internet shrank the world. Closed in a small room, it is possible to contact people all around the earth, publish web pages that are at once available in all part of the world.
That is a powerful means to share own thought, emotions and creations.
Among the last, digital photos well suit to web.
Indeed, many web sites have added images share sections, giving you the possibility to show your photos to all the web visitors. The share allows also to download and use the images.
Surfing those sites you can catch, in untidy and irregular way, sense of the world being.
Putting together more glimpses, those from traveler and those from everyday life, might help in complete the view and in better understanding of the world and its peoples.
Using the web and digital photos, then, it is possible, mixing technology and sensibility, to share glimpses and knowledge of the world.
That is what "glimpses of the world" try to do.
Send few digital photos and few rows of text explanation about your travel or your neighborhood. The subject can be monuments, wildlife, landscapes, tradition and heritage of your country or of the country you traveled.
They will be published on this site; space will be also available for comment or integration from other people.
The site policy explains how your data are managed and the purpose of the site. If you like it, agree on it and would like to send your glimpses, please write to
webmaster@ars21.net .
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