Is love like taking a photo, the lens admits the quantity of light, the

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shutter determines how long it lasts? then we get a photograph that survives years and years after the moment is gone?

Could the source of enchantment be the transient exposure to the beloved?

I know this more than silly to look at love in this mechanical way, but can you deny that we save an everlasting picture in our heads (or hearts if you want) for the beloved, especially the image or the impression that we had at the first few meetings?

[I am discussing love at the first sight]

"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than the great shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging this spark. "
Victor Hugo
 
I'm not sure I follow, but I can agree that the act of preserving a moment, frozen in time has been an enduring addition to the way we remember things for the last century or so. I'm not sure this can equate to love at first sight, but then again the meaning behind much of what is photographed is subjective to those viewing the photograph. Photography though, in my opinion, is more science than the sublime so I woudn't attach the same weight to it as I would love at first sight as I do believe in such occurances. Afterall, you can't fall in love with a photograph. Or maybe you could, who knows...
 
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