Calamity and cleanliness...

Few days back in our photography class, we were going through these presentations where everyone had to come show their favorite five pictures and explain why they liked them in a few words.

One of the pictures and its explanation struck me. It was totally different from normal perception of things, or so I felt. It was a picture of empty rain swept road, with a bent tree, maybe due to the heavy wind at the sight, giving out an image similar to the images broadcasted on television after some torrential rain or a tsunami has hit a place. Now oft such images would trigger a sense of depression, sadness, helplessness or sympathy in someone, but this barren picture that stood in front of me, just appeared plain clean as if the road and trees have received their much awaited shower, the road being the slick clean body and the water dripping trees the wet tresses after a lavish shower. And strangely a similar thought was mentioned by the girl showing the picture taken by her. Though it was a shock to know that someone saw the same exact thing in something that I saw, cos it often happens that I end up seeing some weird things in something that maybe people can't relate with. But, keeping all that aside I suddenly realized that we were exposed to a completely different emotion by that picture. Cleanliness, positive calmness, peace are some words one would hardly associate with a calamity. In fact antonyms of all the above would rather go well in describing a calamity. Its strange how human brain thinks and associates emotions or should I say strange emotions to things they see...