Beta WPI C21 Newsletter

by Kepei Lei As the cameras in our pocket, smart phones, become more and more powerful, people keep asking me one question: as an enthusiast photographer, what sets you apart from the rest of us?

For a long time, I was thinking about how to answer this problem. We all take photos for the same purposes: to record a moment. The difference is that my cameras have a potential to produce better works, and Fortunately, a trip helped me find my own answer. that I always sit down in front of my computer to During the C-term break of my sophomore year, I post-process them. These two were my responses to went to Germany and Czech Republic with the WPI the question at first.

Choir. On this trip, we visited Theresienstadt GhetYou are probably thinking that these answers seem to, one of the concentration camps in Czech Repubway too simple. And you are right! We all can do pret- lic. At the camp, thousands of thoughts ran through ty much the same nowadays with a phone as well. my mind and I caught one of them: There are great software available for everyone to enThe time when this camp was functioning is no joy photography without the struggle to learn the scidoubt some of the darkest days in the history. Howence behind the camera. Such doubts got me at the ever, the sun was the same sun that gives us lights end of freshmen year. Because of that, all the photogtoday. If we are making any direct connection to the raphy I did in the first half of my sophomore year was days of despair, it has to be, ironically, the sun. The covering different events just to get a paycheck. sun shined upon those who had no hope of life, and us who are always looking for tomorrow.