And, in this particular case, the worth of a picture, is MORE than a-thousand words, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
I’d gone shopping at the marketplace in the morning, and, the rowdy atmosphere of the marketplace made me feel just how connected the Taiwanese community is. The owners of every single stand would push forth the buying of their own products, and the auntie that made the fish balls generously scooped up the handmade fish balls cooked in soup for the shoppers to sample. The woman selling the bean curds used her creative thinking skills, made the specialized sauces that’s used as a dip for the bean curds to attract the buyers.
I’d loved buying the organic vegetables planted by the local small farmers, and although the produces weren’t good looking, but, it’s safer to consume. The local small farmers are very kind, and would give me two extra ears of corn, or a bundle of green onions from time to time.
Once I’d asked her, if I can take a photo of her and post it on FB? She’d told me that she wanted to keep everything low key, that she’d not wanted to be photographed, but I’d told her that her produces taste very good, that I will tell everybody I know. And, in this day and age where everybody has a cell phone, a single photograph can either make, or break someone, especially when you don’t really know a thing about the person you’re photographing.
This time, a young female student didn’t know she was being photographed, and it’d become, a sort of a negative propaganda, it’d caused her a ton of distress, and I believe, that the person who took the shot is entirely responsible. Sometimes, we believed ourselves to be servers of justice, wanted to correct others, believed, that taking a shot and posting it online is no big deal; but, all the online community sees, is just the surfaces of things. There are actually, many faces of life, the younger people sitting in the priority seats may have the need to, and naturally, they wouldn’t tell the general public, on public transportation WHY, they’d needed to take up that priority seat.
the act of kindness toward another, captured on film…
Like that small-time farmer I bought the produces from, perhaps, her family has another business; or maybe, her husband didn’t like her to sell the vegetables in the markets, and if I really posted her picture online, it may, cause her unnecessary inconveniences in life.
The next time as we used our cell phones, to post any photos or comments, do think it over, because your careless words may, cause irreparable damages to the people you’d photographed, and it’d caused you moral and legal troubles at the same time.
So, this, is all about, respecting the wishes of others, and, this person had understood this difficult to learn lesson, by her interactions with the woman that sold the vegetables, and, it’s a good thing, that this shopper asked for permissions first, otherwise, I can’t imagine the trouble that the vegetable vendor may be getting into, for having her photographs posted online…