Strange as it seems I was listening to a metaphysical film on quantum, light and spirituality. Then I was presented with the opportunity to learn to use a real camera. I've been using my tablet cam but seriously, it's not a serious camera. In the back of my mind a world opened about capturing a moment of light.
You know it's rude to take someone's photo without permission? Think about that statement, "Take someone's photo." Do the photons of light captured by the camera belong to the person who's light was captured. Many primitive peoples are camera shy, they have stories of the machine that steals souls (so I've heard).
A story popped up about a fashion model who couldn't piece her galactic history together because of the holes, blank zones created by photographs she didn't possess. Or the psychic detective who left his photo in the places he wanted to snoop around. He had a terrible time retrieving them, was almost a suspect. And the world traveller who never left his house yet been everywhere in the pictures of his 20 year collection of National Geographic Magazines.
We see a blast in the distant galaxy and realize it happened thousands of years ago, the light of that event finally reaching us. Shutters so fast it captures slice after slice of time over a time span. Light strikes the face one way, the reflection hits your eye, tells a story. A different light strikes the same face and conveys a different story. People have their best side, want to be seen in a good light and hate being left in the dark. People live in shadows, view life with rose colored glasses and are blind to a great many things.
The good thing is that you can't clone yourself with many prints because each photon pattern that resembles you does not have the intelligent cluster of photons that is your consciousness. It a universal mantra "don't copy that floppy!". But perhaps there are parallel realities and you exist exponentially like a Russian puzzle doll, always one with itself, but clueless of the others. I leave the light on.......take a picture, it lasts longer.
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