Worth a thousand words...

[frydham]

They say pictures are worth a thousand words. But are they?

What if you only had one? One word to describe your image?

One sentence to sum up your vision?

If you could say one thing to the world through your photography, what would you say?

[PowerPix]

That's quite a broad concept. I really don't have a definite answer and I'm not sure that anybody will. It depends on who is looking at the photo and what they interpret from it.

Many people have different reasons for being in photography in the first place. It would be somewhat difficult to pinpoint what they are trying to portray through "photography" in general.

[Biomech]

I'd show them a picture - that way I'd have a thousand words right?

[gturner]

Give me some of what you are taking and I am sure I'll come up with something.

I have always been rubbish at this sort of thing!

[andyw]

Originally Posted by frydham

They say pictures are worth a thousand words. But are they?

What if you only had one? One word to describe your image?

One sentence to sum up your vision?

If you could say one thing to the world through your photography, what would you say?

Forgotten to take your pills again??

[Ignatius]

Originally Posted by frydham

They say pictures are worth a thousand words. But are they?

What if you only had one? One word to describe your image?

One sentence to sum up your vision?

If you could say one thing to the world through your photography, what would you say?

Originally Posted by andyw

Forgotten to take your pills again??

This is 6 words plus 2 question marks.




German people are lucky: they can combine two or more words.
If I were German, my answer for frydham's question would be "Weltanschauung"

[frydham]

To be honest, I don't really know what I would say either.

It depends on who is looking at the photo and what they interpret from it.

Yeah, I guess that's why they are considered to be worth a thousand words. Because a thousand different people look at it, and it says something different to each.

It seems like the most powerful photos are the ones that say the same thing to a large number people.

Forgotten to take your pills again??

Maybe ;P

[sk66]

Interesting question for which I have no answer; for me each image has it's own message.

However, a picture should NOT be taken in an attempt to convey a thousand words...An image should be taken to convey one idea very clearly..so maybe an picture should be meant to convey only one word, but can be "worth" a thousand words (and mean different things to different people).