Anne-Claire told me something very interesting, while we were speaking of the pictures I took, and of the ideas I had with her :

"You take very very good photographs, Martin, and your ideas are nifty, but, only one thing... hum... couldn't they be more, kinda, happy, or something of that sort?".

I must say that since that day, I try to make things lighter, happier, less sad. To my great stupefaction, while browsing the Emotive portraits through dA, I realized that the preferred one were those showing sadness, lost love, etc. Nothing happy. Nothing fancy. Like if all the artists were sick and tired people.

I'm a sick and tired person. I'm doing studies which are certainly not making anyone happy. Nobody.

I browsed my own gallery, all my scraps. This was obvious. I never smiled in my pictures. Never ever. But once. And nobody saw it as a smile.

Sourire. That's such an easy thing to do. I may just have taught to some their very first important word in french. Sourire. Like Steven does. Though he's living in the street. Though life doesn't seem to smile for him.

A smile is nothing. And everything, in the meantime. Let me explain. When you receive a smile, you don't measure the depth of your act, it's action range. You don't realize you may just have enlighten someone's day. You don't realize that someone appreciates you, or more. You don't realize you're not alone.

A smile seems to be nothing at this moment.

But. You did it. You hit with your sourire, you were blown off by someone smiling for you. Not at you, but for you. Such a gift.

A smile becomes everything.

I don't know what pushed me to write such a speech in my so broken english. But i'm always trying, sometimes succeeding.

You may like this picture. You may not. You may say that the nose is out of focus ( it's wanted, though ), that there are flaws on it. Probably.

But I hope that you'll smile after reading this. A lil bit more. That lil bit more. A smile... is everything.

You may think that I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.


Merci.


Martin






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