Wednesday, April 20, 2005

My history with photography…

In the past, my mom used to take a photo for me whatever I was doing … so now, I have a real big collection of different parts & stages of my life… in some of them I was alone… in others I was with the ones I share my beautiful memories… some of them are still alive & others are now unreachable…
The fingers & the eyes that took these photos belongs mainly to my mom, and she always said: son, all this I did, so one day you will see how u was… to show you how u grow up… but, for me, I already followed you stage by stage, and the most important is that I know my dear, that you are still the same guy… the same look, the same eyes…
These photos was in reality so important to me, and they are one of the principal causes that pushed me forward to love photography… And, as I was happy with my photos, I took photos for many persons, also in different stages of their life, on the faith that one day they will remember how they was and that this will maybe reflect on their life…

But if my beautiful memories was a principal push, but they were not the only ones… I cannot hide since my childhood a big love to nature… for everything in nature… flowers, trees, mountains, plants, animals… also my love to the beauty all over… my love to paints…
In my uncle house, there was a big poster of a tulip garden… millions of colors… this room was my reading room… as my mum and aunt library was in… and in this room I passed the biggest time of my childhood, just reading and looking and wondering… many questions was always in my mind that time… but the most important one was: can I one day take a photo like this one?…

I walked in the forests, plains, prairies & mountains… and the usual places that I like mainly are the high places… but the main place was in my village… on the top of the biggest hill of it… why?… because this was a place where you can see the sea, the plain of Akkar & the mountains in the same time… and since my childhood, the usual moment to stay there was at sunset time… so no one can lose me in an afternoon… and no one sunset moment I lost since this time… each day I said goodbye to the sun that hide slowly in the heart of the Mediterranean sea…

And now, the camera is just taking all what I saw & I’m seeing daily of beauties and transferring it to each one of you… my goal is to show how much everything made by god is so beautiful… to show how our country is so beautiful… to prove that Lebanon is definitely the best place to live in… to prove that we have everything, and all what we have to do is to open our eyes and look around…

Sassine El Nabbout MD.
www.sasmen.blogspot.com

1 comment:

sadlers5 said...

I think your mom would be proud of you and I think God smiles down as you go about your day in the country that you love so much, don't ever change my friend, you are the salt of the earth and have a lovely spirit! It is good your mom taught you to take pictures because we can see your beautiful area that you live in also. take care my friend, ann