Click, Flash and Capture!

By Syeda Zehra

A new thing that I have noticed in my generation is that we are becoming less camera conscious. We create memories everyday, capture them and last but not the least share them through the not-so-happening Facebook.

Students like us only need a camera whether digital or in a cell phone and we start posing and clicking. No more tension of sitting at the right place with the right background. We can snap pictures anywhere and anytime. In classes, corridors, backyard, sofas, stairs, rikshaws, food outlets, libraries, washrooms, pedestrian bridge, public buses and KU points, even in cars (which are actually ‘lifts’), you name it and we have already done it.

This paparazzi spirit in us always rises to its peak on occasions like birthdays, student’s week, cricket tournaments, seminars etc. Recently we were celebrating cheap day and Cultural day in our department. There were flashes all around. Our department was presenting a sight of a studio with celebrities and photographers everywhere.

The height of our craze for pictures can be easily gauged by the number of messages the ‘photographer’ (one who has got camera) receives by the end of an event from his/her fellows to upload pictures. After that is another round of comments, likes and dislikes on famous social networking sites.

In my past two years of university, I have made a collection of around 500 pictures (a record itself), wondering how many more memories will add to it!