World Photography Day - Send in your Pictures 📷
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Published 18 Aug 2022 in Colleagues
Tomorrow is World Photography Day, the annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography! 📷
With that in mind, to celebrate World Photography Day, we're asking colleagues to get outside and share their best hobby/interests shots! They could be from the Summer, a personal interest or a memory from the past!
Just send in your photos to communications@midcounties.coop and we'll feature our favourite snaps on Colleagues Connect! Don't forget to include your name and where you work.
A Picture paints a Thousand words 🎨
Since the early 19th century, photography has become an ever-increasing medium of personal expression and appreciation for countless people around the world.
A photograph has the ability to capture a place; an experience; an idea; a moment in time. For this reason, it's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Photographs can convey a feeling faster than, and sometimes even more effectively than words can. A photograph can make the viewer see the world the way the photographer sees it.
Photographs even transcend the passing of time - a photo from a hundred years ago can still be as appreciated now, as it was then. A photo taken tomorrow can still be just as appreciated by others in a hundred years' time.
Taking photos to improve your mental health and wellbeing 😊
'Take notice' is one of the five ways to wellbeing.
Reminding yourself to ‘take notice’ can strengthen and broaden awareness.
Studies have shown that being aware of what is taking place in the present directly enhances your well-being and savouring ‘the moment’ can help reaffirm your life priorities.
Heightened awareness also enhances your self-understanding and allows you to make positive choices based on your own values and motivations.
So why not take some time to enjoy the moment and the environment around you?