{"id":160708,"date":"2019-08-01T22:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T05:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=160708"},"modified":"2019-08-01T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:09:14","slug":"why-photography-and-art-are-essential-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/01\/why-photography-and-art-are-essential-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Photography and Art are Essential to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A life without photography or art isn’t a life worth living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1. Photography makes us live more! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Photography as beneficial for our mental health, physical health and soul health!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography encourages us to explore more, adventure more, see more, and experience more! Photography helps us get back in touch with our inner-self; our desire to become visual adventurers and conquerers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Photogrpahy makes life and the world more beautiful <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Photography is augmented reality. Photography makes life even MORE fun, MORE interesting, and MORE beautiful! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. Photography to document and record our life moments and experiences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Photography as a visual log of our lives (plogging: photo logging).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joy of looking back at our old photos and resparking the joy of past memories. Hope and optimism for the future to create EVEN MORE new life experiences!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have a poor memory, so photography is a tool of memory augmentation as well, and experience augmentation<\/strong> (I experience things more deeply when I photograph them). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. Visual philosophy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Photography as a tool to philosophize about life and the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Live and shoot on! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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