" A picture is worth a thousand words "

" A picture is worth a thousand words"

Why should I write more?

I afraid to decrease their beauties and values when I tell something about them.

:point_down:

Isn’t it?

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Is a picture always worth a 1000 words @Navid_Ebdaei ?

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Hi dear @AdamGT
Thankyou for your comment :+1: :slightly_smiling_face: :pray:

In fact, It depends on how that sentence is interpreted

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In the context of my post I don’t think so @Navid_Ebdaei !!!

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Dear @AdamGT

As far as I know, generally, visual objects, materials and ideas, could easily be recognized by people and be more understandable than voice and text.

Such as photographs, videos, graphical signs and etc.

In fact the worst medium to transfer ideas and messages is text.

By the way, because I could not get your idea, I would be very thankful if you explain more about your above question, please :+1: :pray: :slightly_smiling_face: :slightly_smiling_face: ‌ it may be useful and helpful for me and everyone else :+1: :pray: :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yes visual objects like photos can be more easily understood and recognized @Navid_Ebdaei but the point of my post mentioned in my comment above is that here on Connect so often Local Guides post photos and leave us wanting! Did you read my post? Did you understand the point that I was making? If you do then you will understand my question if that is the question that you are referring to. If however you are asking about the question in my signature line then I suggest that you just click it and you will find the answer :wink:

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Today I had a chance to read your relevant posts (including other people comments)

as well as your signature content @AdamGT , not once, but twice!
it helped me to better understand your point of view.

:thinking:
Still I am sure “It depends on how the sentence is interpreted”
:thinking:

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Beautiful rose, what kind of flower is the second picture? :thinking: I couldn’t tell @Navid_Ebdaei

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Hi dear @Ale_003 :slightly_smiling_face:
In fact I took those photos in a flower decorating shop.

The second photo is a box/basket decorated with some purple colored Orchids in bottom (Perhaps 8 or 9 numbers), added with 2 numbers of red roses, and finally added with 4 number of taller white orchids (perhaps Phalaenopsis or ‘Moth Orchid’".

I am not professional in flowers and their names , but I love to take photo of them and all lovely things, specially Orchids :slightly_smiling_face: :+1: :pray:

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Orchids! Right! I wasn’t sure, they’re beautiful :star_struck: one of my favorites flowers here in Mexico are quite expensive what about there? @Navid_Ebdaei

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Hi @Navid_Ebdaei I do not want to discourage you, but I need to be honest, so I agree with @bmuu .

There is an interesting article written by a communication agency titled “A Picture May Be Worth 1,000 Words…But You Still Need Words

It is just because of your words that I can understand what you are talking about.

As you say “I afraid to decrease their beauties and values when I tell something about them” I believe you are talking about the flowers, but for sure not about the pictures.

Honestly the pictures are diminishing the beauty of the flower, due to a lot of elements that are “disturbing” the photos. Framing the photo, focusing on the subject while watching the whole content, removing what is disturbing/distracting is one of the first basic rules of every photographer, not related to the camera you have but simply to the capacity to watch the whole photo, not only the subject forgetting what is around, like the reflection on the glass, the dust on the baseboard, a triangle entering on the right side, and a piece of something blue on the left.

To summarize the 1000 words that are coming in my mind, without reading your text, I can say “disorder”. The flowers are beautiful, but “killed” by a bad framed context.

This is valid not only for you, these rules are valid for me first, and I am working day by day to try to take “meaningful photos”, photos where with a single shot I can tell you the destruction of a earthquake, or the beauty of my city

However I am not posting my images here alone, I add text, because I want to tell a whole story, even if driven by a meaningful photo.

This post can help you to better understand how to use your photos to support your stories:Uploading a photo on Connect? Read these guidelines first

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:slightly_smiling_face: yes they are lovely beautiful flowers, I am happy that you like it @Ale_003 :+1: :slightly_smiling_face: :pray:
they are very expensive in Iran too.

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Hi Dear @ErmesT :slightly_smiling_face:
Thank you for your comment and expressing your ideas about the post. :slightly_smiling_face: :+1: :pray:
I have read it and checked all mentioned links and articles too.

It seems you are very wise and intellectual person who read useful materials , articles and scientific results
before making any judgement, decision and suggestion, that is very commendable and admirable to me. thank you :slightly_smiling_face: :+1: :pray:

Therefore I would like to propose you to make some search in Google and review some articles about following topics too:

-Communication
-What is Social media used for

-Perfection and Perfectionism

-What is our own perspective

So, after becoming deeper familiar with those subjects, I am pretty sure that my post will be more clear(Although it is crystal clear).

Finally please be informed that, no one can discourage me when I am sure that I am doing right things.

Thank you again for your consideration. :+1: :slightly_smiling_face: :pray:

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You are welcome to follow your own way, @Navid_Ebdaei , and you are welcome to keep your point of view.

If you think that your photos are communicating the beauty, that’s good for you.

However, the scope of the visual communication is to reach directly the emotion, bypassing the rational analysis, so the result should be immediate, not filtered by the reading articles about communication and Social media. This is a huge contradiction of what you are declaring.

And what reach me immediately is everything but beauty.

Yes, I read a lot, and then I try apply what I read, to see if it really works.

I started to work on “nonverbal communication” on 1982 (yes, 38 years ago) with an international group of university teachers of psychology, and teachers in neurosciences. The group included photographers, painters, dancers and musicians. So I know very well what nonverbal communication is.

There is a big difference between “photos” and “visual” communications, as the visual communication is an articulate set of content.

the purpose of nonverbal communication is to reach the subject by bypassing the rational analysis of the content. In this way the communication is immediate, not filtered by analysis, directed to the most basic emotions.
Beauty is beautiful immediately, it is beautiful because I like it and because it makes me feel good, not because I first read an article that explains to me what “the beauty” is

You said: “no one can discourage me when I am sure that I am doing right things”

I am not trying to discourage you, nor to change your mind, but I simply want to offer to you an honest opinion. I am not used to say “beautiful” of what I don’t like, nor to say “bad” without checking. Keeping an opinion is good, however the characteristic of a leader is the capacity to evaluate, and to change his opinion, if necessary

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