a thousand words

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.” ~Lewis Hine



I found that this statement really had me thinking of which medium could relay more. While I would like to say that this is a very true statement, I find myself struggling to totally agree with it. I myself love to write and create pictures with only words. I love to let people see what they want in a scene that is described with words that I picked carefully to create a world. I like to see what can be accomplished with words. In fact, when I was a little girl, I preferred to read the books with pages upon pages of words and only used the picture books if I wanted to look at pretty drawings. This is what the writer side of me thinks.

But I am also a very visual person so I believe that pictures can convey feelings and emotion that words cannot relate even with the most poignant descriptions. There are times when words are just not enough, or even when they are not needed at all....in that case I will be brave and admit it, if I could tell a story in words alone, I wouldn't need to lug a camera around.