Increase your understanding by increasing your vocabulary

With my latest purchase of an E-reader, never has the barrier to reading been struck down as low as it has been for myself. This has allowed myself to consume the most books i have ever had within a fixed period of time. From that reading, I have been exposed a multitude of expressions strung together, specifically to invoke imagery in the readers mind that does not exist anywhere else in the world.

“What Makes an image stand above the rest?”

“What do I enjoy about a specific photo?”

After Glow, After Work

The best way to contribute to the building of the world around you is to carefully observe the world around you.

Many times I have asked myself these questions. Was it the lack of understanding the photo and the craft of taking photos or was it the lack of vocabulary that was inhibiting my expression of these thoughts into coherent sentences? I would argue both are deeply intertwined. From learning the vocabulary to verbalise our thoughts, we learn expressions and phrases used commonly to describe phenomenons and commanalities between photos we enjoy. From better understanding photos, you find the vocabulary others use when sharing their work.

Picking up the muscle for vocabulary is a large and important step in diving deeper into any subject. Vocabulary not only help you understand and verbalise what you enjoy about photos. It helps us as humans better critically exchange ideas to each other. Exchanging of ideas, reinforcing our beliefs or challenging them will allow us to re-examine our thoughts. Every time we verbalise these thoughts into sentences understandable to another person, we carefully choose our words slower than we would in our head. This gives us the time to critically think about what we are about to say. Vocabulary allows ideas shared to ourselves to be understood and internalised.