Slices of Time

During the age of film and wet plates,

photography was a very challenging

and excruciating craft.

I was fascinated on how light was captured.

A process our eyes cannot see.

Yet we need our eyes to take a photo.

It was the time when we use the term

capture, not make or take.

Tribes in Africa still believes that

taking a photo of them was indeed

taking their soul which is true.

We take a part of them and recorded it 

in a slice of gelatin 

which came from a cow's guts.

Today, images are recorded as numbers.

In a slice of fives and zeros.

But we capture reality.

To cherish on years to come.

A photo that can make us

remember our happy/sad moments

together.

And I wish that YOU'RE by my side

as we laugh and talk about a photo,

a photo that will make us travel

in a slice of time.