Capturing the Sunset

Some people say memories last a lifetime, but do they? Value is not always how much you pay. What lasts longer, an item, or a picture in ones mind, and which is more valuable? We live in a world where some poeple spend millions of dollars on purses or maybe dimond studded t-shirts. Does the more something cost increse its value?

We raced down to the pond, eleven in all. We all bring blankets, and colleen brings her iPod, of course. It’s only around 7:30 P.M. so we have some time. The pond has little ripples that, in fifteen, will fade to glass. All the adults sit at the one picnic table, and we kids play in the water fully clothed. The bottom of the sun touches the top of the very distant mountain. We all simultaneously get out of the water, and sit in the sand. We’re alone on the pond, and it’s nice us being together. The sky looks as if it’s separated into many different groups; it starts out shades orange, and fades into a pink, then the blue of the night sky. No one says anything, and it’s even prettier then last night, or last year. The sun falls faster and faster until all that’s left is the vibrant stars lighting up the dark sky. We begin our journey back to cabin, and hope it will be just as pretty tomorrow night.

The camera clicks and that’s got to be my 90th picture today. I love my camera, bright red with beautiful picture quality and the brightest flash you will see. I scroll through the taken pictures, delete this one, keep that one. I find a pretty flower, and it’s saved to my memory card and I just keep snapping picture. I bring my camera into my house, upload the picture to my computer, and head back outside. I delete what stored on my camera to make more room and snap another twenty pictures.

My camera and the sunset are similar in so many ways. First my camera carries such beautiful colors, and the sunset, well the colors are just magical. Another similarity is that, I enjoy both. I love taking picture, and looking at pictures on my camera, and the sunset, it’s my favorite event to watch. The last similarity between my digital camera and the sunset is that they both remind me of my family. My camera is usually filled with at least fifty percent of pictures of my family, and I can’t watch a sunset alone, I’m always watching it with my cousins, or my parents or my brother, but I can’t watch the sunset alone.

My camera is different from the sunset because the sunset I see every night for about twenty minutes, where I always have my camera, and I can use it for longer the sun is up. Also I can record things with my camera and play them over and over, once the sun disappears over the mountains, it’s gone until the next night.

So I guess it depends on the person’s point-of-view, if they would rather have something they have in their hands, or have something in the back of their minds. I don’t think you can really put a price on something you can’t hold. One way for me to think about is, if my camera breaks, it’s gone, but the sun will give me a beautiful show every night of the week.