Essay on photographic prose

I don't know why, but I hated taking pictures when I was a child.

In fact, it was a rare thing to take pictures at that time, and usually only a few pictures could be taken during holidays. For people of that era, photography was a craft, and my second dad happened to be a photographer. During the slack season, the second dad sometimes goes to the village to take pictures, the purpose is naturally to earn some money to buy daily necessities.

One afternoon in the summer vacation of primary school, the sun in the sky was as vicious as fire. My second dad had a good business that day. In order to turn the negatives in the camera into visible photos as soon as possible, he came to my house after taking pictures of others and prepared to take pictures of us with the remaining negatives. Naturally, for us at that time, it was very wonderful and exciting.

At that time, my mother, who was only in her thirties, was beaming, and my sister jumped up and down with excitement. When I was my mother, I crossed my hands to hold her rather messy hair and untied the apron around my waist. When my sister wandered around in front of the mirror excitedly for several times, they came to the kang one after another, shouting that I was going to fall asleep and get up.

It is said that I was sleeping soundly at that time, when I was suddenly shouted and pulled, I sat up very depressed. I was already very unhappy at that time. When I found out that the reason for waking me up turned out to be taking pictures, I couldn't help shouting angrily: "I don't take pictures." Then I turned and cried a few times, and then I continued to turn around and sleep.

My mother and my sister think I am unreasonable, but I am helpless and too lazy to talk to me anymore. Take a group photo and POSe, and things will pass.

That photo is still there today. In the photo, the young mother, with ear-length short hair, sat solemnly under the pomegranate tree at home. At that time, my tall and thin sister was standing next to her, but the other side was empty, because at that time, I was continuing my "cage sleep" angrily.

This scene took place in the late 1970s. Now, more than 30 years have passed, but I still remember it clearly. As for why I was so unreasonable at that time, in retrospect, although there were unreasonable elements, I think the main problem may still be related to my childhood health. Because at that time, I always seemed to be unable to sleep. Every time I got up, I felt very depressed, as if the end of the world was just around the corner. To this day, I don't understand why I feel that way. I guess it may have something to do with malnutrition as a child.

Of course, apart from physical reasons, I really don't like taking pictures, but there are also psychological reasons. Because I didn't know why when I was a child, I always felt inferior and completely ugly, so I was not interested in taking pictures.

At that time, there were few opportunities to take pictures, and I was eccentric, so the photos of hours were really limited.

After junior high school, on the eve of the senior high school entrance examination, we probably went to register for the exam, and the teacher asked each of us to hand in some photos. It's a small matter to put this thing on today. However, for me at that time, this has become a major event. There are only two reasons for this. One is that there is no money in my pocket, and the other is that there is no photo studio nearby.

But this photo had to be handed in, and there was no room for manoeuvre, so I took a special leave to go home and pestered my second dad to find a way for me. At that time, my second dad, probably because the business situation of photography was not optimistic, had basically closed the booth, but I begged him to find a way to solve the problem of this photo for me anyway, and I not only wanted the photo, but I was also in a hurry.

My second dad is a capable man, but at the same time, my second dad is lazy. But Lazy Dad also knows that this is serious and important, so he really took photos of me and developed them in time, so with his skill, I handed them in in graduation photo in junior high school on time.

To tell the truth, that photo is really ugly. If I show it to you now without explanation, you will think that the girl in the photo is over forty, but anyway, the rigid task assigned by the teacher has finally been prevaricated, which really makes me feel carefree and relieved when a big stone finally falls to the ground.

It was also when I was in junior high school that one year during the Spring Festival, my little cousin who was far away in Ningxia, that is, my uncle's little son, went back to his hometown for the Spring Festival. One day, he came to my house to play. At that time, our family was in a hurry to tidy themselves up, because my father specially invited a photographer to take a photo of our family that day.

The sun was warm and bright that day. Although it is winter, it is warm. My little cousin probably saw that everyone was busy, and after playing for a while, she said she was leaving, but my mother didn't stop her.

After a while, my father came out of the room and saw that my little cousin had disappeared. He asked my mother, "Where's Xiao Lin? Where did it go? "

Mom said, "Oh, he said he was leaving, so I let him go."

After hearing this, the father reprimanded his mother and said, "We finally got together, and the photographer is coming soon. How can you let the child go? " "

After hearing this, my mother repeatedly said that she was confused, so at one command, my tall second brother, who is good at long-distance running, rushed out of the door and soon brought my little cousin back. For this matter, everyone laughed at my "one-track-minded" mother for a long time.

That black-and-white photo is still there today. My little cousin in the photo is just a teenage boy. Now, he is in his fifties. Even the youngest person in the photo, if rounded, will be a two-digit number starting with 5. My smiling father, who is still young in the photo, has been away from me for more than twenty years.

Time flies, sometimes it's really hard to turn back!

In high school, I went to the county to study. When I am about to graduate, I need graduation photo as usual. It's just that there was a photo studio near the school at that time, so it was much easier to take pictures. I remember taking photos with some classmates at that time. Several people not only took photos of graduation photo, but also took a small group photo. That photo is still in my photo album, which has become an eternal commemoration of our lush years.

Compared with graduation photo in junior high school, graduation photo in senior high school seems to be younger and better-looking, which makes me feel a little surprised when I see the photos, and at the same time, I feel a little happy. Just as I was intoxicated, a classmate grabbed my photo, took a casual look at it, and then looked at me carefully from top to bottom and said, "You are not photogenic, in fact, you look better than the photo ..."

Some of my classmates' comments can be said to be unintentional, but I can't help but think: "It turns out that I am not as ugly as I thought."

When I was in college, I came to the provincial capital from the county seat, and my vision was naturally broader. At that time, on weekends, I would play with my classmates, and when I played, I would inevitably take some photos. The time was in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At that time, the most popular movie in the university was Le Kai, because the photos it took were of good color, and most importantly, the price was low. Of course, the better films are Fuji and Kodak. Unfortunately, for a group of poor students, this price is obviously a bit expensive.

At that time, we could take pictures by ourselves with cameras and film. Compared with the previous photography, we are going to the photo studio, which is really high-end. However, the disadvantage is that accidents often occur.

I once visited several scenic spots such as the Botanical Garden with some friends and took photos of people of all ages. However, only a few photos were developed in the end. I asked the reason and said that the film was old and could not be developed.

Another time, during the school sports meeting, I made an appointment with several boys from the neighboring school to go to Huashan together. Naturally, there will be no shortage of photos. When I came back, I sent it to the photo studio. Only a few of them were developed. As for the reason, I said I was exposed.

Such a thing, such a regret, naturally not only happened to me, but also attacked every friend and classmate around me.

However, after all, compared with junior high school and senior high school, I left more beautiful pictures in college. These photos come from the campus and scenic spots, which I took during my internship. As soon as I have time, I will open them and look at them. Like smoke, they really come into my eyes.

When I graduate from college, I need graduation photo as usual. This kind of photo is naturally safer to go to the photo studio. Before taking pictures, I went to the barber shop on purpose. At that time, there was a hairstyle that was very popular. The official name was "The waves stopped". This hairstyle is characterized by making bangs stand upright, which is a very popular "wave stop" hairstyle in my university in graduation photo.

There are many occasions to go to the photo studio after graduation, such as taking exams and taking pictures on the admission ticket; For example, after having a child, the child's hundred-day sunshine or one-year-old photo can't be separated from the photo studio.

A year after I graduated from college, I got married, and my wedding photos went to the photo studio. The time is 1993. The wedding photos in the studio are very rough, without artistic sense and aesthetic feeling, so I look like a vegetable in the wedding photos, with a dull expression.

After several years of marriage, I saw that art photos became very popular, and it was a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to become an artist. Finally, on the sixth anniversary of my wedding, I got my wish and walked into the photo studio. After the makeup artist shaved off my eyebrows, put on lipstick, put on a wig and retouched the picture, I was "artistic". However, this photo is "so hot that a person has a burden on his head", because when we stand in front of the photographer together, the conversation between the photographer and the person next to me is like this:

Photographer: "Sir, you must work in the court?"

A nearby one muttered, "Huh? No. "

Photographer: "Then why are you so serious?"

Naturally, under the teasing and training of the photographer, everyone in the photo is smiling, but few people know how this smile came from.

To tell the truth, when we got married, we were financially strapped, so we all chose the cheapest package when taking pictures. After six years of marriage, although the economy has not made much progress, at least in photography, we don't have to consider the price too much.

When I went to make up the wedding photos, my daughter was 5 years old. Naturally, there were many shots of her in these photos.

My husband doesn't like taking pictures. He hasn't been in a photo studio since he was tortured by that art photo. He thinks that taking pictures is a kind of torture for him. And I, as my daughter grows up, naturally pay more attention to her. I said to my daughter, "when you were a child, your conditions were limited, so there were fewer photos." In the future, whenever there is something memorable, I will take a group of artistic photos for you. "

When I said this, my daughter was about to take the senior high school entrance examination. In my eyes, the senior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination are naturally memorable events in my daughter's life. So my plan is to take a group of art photos as a souvenir as soon as the senior high school entrance examination is over.

After my daughter's senior high school entrance examination, we took a group of art photos as planned, but after taking them, we vowed never to take art photos of this kind of thing again, because I really felt tired and panicked, so my grand plan ran aground.

Two thousand years later, digital cameras began to appear gradually. At first, I thought this camera was really amazing. After I was amazed, with my own magical camera, taking pictures became simple and convenient, anytime and anywhere. The advantage of a digital camera is that it can not only take pictures, but also watch them at any time. Okay, just delete it. It's not like before. If you don't go to the photo studio to develop them, you'll never see yourself in the photos again. After using the digital camera for a while, we bought a video recorder. The people in the video recorder not only have images, but also can speak with kinetic energy, which we really could not imagine before.

Taking pictures today can no longer be simply called taking pictures. What I really like is to use a long lens like a cannon, what SLR, what card, long and short, freely changing and colorful. For a layman like me, carrying a small mobile phone with me can also capture beautiful scenery and seasonal changes.

When I was a child, I didn't have the conditions to take pictures. I preferred taking pictures. Now that I'm old and my camera equipment is getting better and better, I like taking pictures instead. Travel abroad and take photos one by one; After dinner, I will also take pictures of myself. Some people take pictures of themselves, while others take pictures of themselves. Maybe in my heart, I want to leave this wonderful time in the form of photos forever.

Writing here, I can't help but think of an interesting thing about taking pictures during the Spring Festival this year: I went home to pay a New Year call to my brother and sister-in-law, and after dinner my brother organized a group photo, and I was arranged to "sit" in the front row. Only a few days later, I was reduced to "sitting" taking pictures! So I can't help feeling that these fucking years are really like birds with wings, flying too fast.

It's not a big picture, but it's not small. Because many precious memories and valuable shots are kept in historical picture books forever by taking pictures.

And I, at a certain time on a certain day, recalled those things about taking pictures. While smiling, I couldn't help but express my surprise and sigh at these earth-shaking changes that happened inadvertently around me.