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Sonali Dalal's avatar

I was an obsessive photographer. Didn't like to miss photographing any moment or place when I traveled. It took me few years to realise that I was missing out on feeling and experiencing the place as I constantly viewed through narrow viewfinder. I stopped this mindless photography. Since than I feel liberated, I don't feel the need to shoot constantly. I don't feel the need to upload and seek appreciation. Now I write on my mind. Now I feel, I enjoy the place, atmosphere, people much more than before. Yes, I do take photos for memories sake but that craze to capture everything is lost.

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Yeddanapudi Radhika's avatar

I write poems and so the instinct to capture a moment does not fade but because a poem reflects feelings it just seems so much more alive. But I prefer to take photos rather than scroll. I love photos of my father who passed away in 2023. Not just any photos though, most of the ones I love are from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s when our lives most touched before I left for the US in the 90s. Recently, I wrote a long poem to him as well, something I didn't think was possible for me as most of my poems are short.

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