What Words Can't Describe

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Yes I believe it is. Many times you can look at a picture and it tells a lot more than you can try to describe in words. Like we discussed in class, you can try and convince someone that pit bulls are good dogs and would never hurt anyone if trained right, but unless they have visual proof it’s going to be really hard to make them truly believe that. Pictures appeal to most everyone’s emotions and they can gather from a picture things that you wouldn’t be able to tell in writing. They will connect the picture to certain aspects of their life that you wouldn’t know about if you were writing about something. As an example if I were to try and tell you about all the atrocities Hitler committed and you had never heard of him or knew anything about what he’d done, it would take me a very long time to try and tell you everything I knew. I could however show you pictures of the things he had done and you would understand very quickly that he was in fact evil. It would take much more than a thousand words to describe his brand of evil, but it would take only one picture to show it. The good thing about photo’s it that now matter what language you speak or where you call home, if you see a picture of something you can understand it. You can take a picture of something and it allows people to draw their own assumptions, it won’t usually be bias. In closing I most certainly believe that pictures are worth a thousand words, at least a thousand words. Some pictures are worth more word than you would ever be able to come up with.