Why do you take photos?

To capture the beautiful things in this life....

It depends on the people right?

There are some who love Nature and the beauty of it, and hence they take pictures to capture those beautiful moments.

But there are some who takes pictures just so that they can document and remember it.

I am asking you... Why you take photos? 

Oh me.... I take Photos to capture the beauty of nature

And how you define beauty? 

Anything and Everything which looks explicilty NON-HUMAN.

I hope you're not going to ask "and how you define non-human?" now :P @sameer

Hahahaha lol. Good one @TS

So that I don't have to go hunting pictures for my blog posts on google images

As far as I know, humans are said to be the one of the beautiful creation by God  @Pooja

I respect INNER BEAUTY more than Outer Beauty Sameer. And unfortunately HUMANS's Inner beauty cannot be captured. But for NATURE Inner and Outer beauty is the same. So love capturing it.

Beauty is beauty... inner or outer  

What about portrait photography? Isn't that beauty  

Nope... For me its Different. You are a Photographer so our perspective changes right.

You takes Photos cause it is your passion.

I take photos cause NATURE is my passion.

Hmm! Not at all interested in Potrait photography. Only NATURE.

Humans are said to be most beautiful ? says who ?

Such narcissism

Humans are not "the most beautiful". They are one of the God's beautiful creation 

@pooja: Gotcha! 

Is that a SMILEY POSTING CHALLENGE?

yeah! and you lost it badly 

http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?id=12136

Scroll down and check. No one can beat me yaar. If I knew it was a smiley posting challengethen you would have drowned in my smileys. We can have a separate thread for Smiley Challenge. What say?

Smiley Challenge?  But I don't think IB has a wide set of smiley.  And we may be accused of spamming smileys  Still it's a great idea, i guess 

I take photos to record my impression on the places i have visited, hopefully when we travel down the memory lane it will reveal when i had been to a particular place.  Sounds autobiographical 

Humility is the essence of true photography..as I am a street photographer and a beggar poet, I live with beggars I doucument their pain through pictures I live with Hijras and the Naga Sadhus for me photography is a healing science of touch ..and I am lucky I bequeathed this sublime gift to Marziya Shakir my grand daughter 4 year old one of the finest streeet photographers of Mumbai internationally acclaimed and I am now in the process of teaching photography on the Cano EOS 7 D to my second grand daughter Nerjis Asif Shakir 8 month..so when you update this post after an year or so so she will be shooting pictures along with me and this is the humility the essence of my photography.

Thank You

**Speechless**

@Shoumik Kahali, @Pooja Pradeep, @Umesh Derebail, @Firoze Shakir : 

I documented your replies with your blog links  in Why do we take Photographs.

Some more replies please 

I just love photography. I wish I could ever learn professionally and spend time on that. But we can't manage time for everything we love. So, at random, without professional knowledge, I take pics which I love. Generally, nature, sky, trees, innocent kids. One benifit of photography is when I can relate them with poetry, I feel the perfect expression of thoughts and emotions by words and pics. 

Thank you Mohinee for your relpy. 

I documented it in my blog :) 

मुझे हर समय हर जगह कविता दिखती है 

इसलिए मै

इसलिए मै फोटो निकाल लेता हु कही कोई कविता छूट न जाए 

मेरे ब्लॉग नव भाचित्रक

शशि की कविताए हो या नव भाचित्रक मै दोनो  से कविता ही कहता हु

this 3 replies are due to mistakes sorry for that 

Thank you Shashiprakash Saini for your reply. 

I documented it in my blog :)

i have a camera and i want to show others that yes i was here.... !! (though i also take them witgout me in the frame).....am sort of a traveller(a frequent one)

not for any asthetic beauty or something, but if i find it is god

So that 10 years from now, when I want to revisit my past, I can take a break from the busy routine, open up the album and reflect on where I have been in the past. Reflect on what my life had been like back then. Remind myself of the time that is ticking away. A reason to smile. :) 

Funny, I was going through some of the pictures from my college campus just a few days back. I was feeling the nostalgia. It's been only two months since I left college. Imagine how I will feel when I look at the same pictures 10 years from now. :)  

Thank you @Yatin Khuran & Nikita for your response. 

I have documented your replies with your blog links in  Why do we take photographs?

I should not give links here. How can I remove the link? 

you can post relevant links here. and this one is ....... !! :)