picture perfect

recently i was looking at a friend's photo album on fb. there was a long series of photos of the sunset on a beach resort somewhere. the scene was beautiful, but looking at the photos one after another, each probably taken seconds apart, i started to feel that they lost their meaning and their feeling.

whenever i see such series of photos, everything just looks like a test shot, there is no final product, like the photographer is just trying his luck with the photos and even if one turns out great, i'll feel that it's just an inevitability. at the end of everything they should just make up their mind and choose one.

the kind of photographs i like to look at are those taken without any context. just individual shots, nothing to compare with, no chance to say if it's better or worse. it is just there as it is and therefore it's perfect.