It’s not quite clear who coined the phrase A picture is worth a thousand words. Fred Barnard wrote One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words in a journal called Printers Ink back in 1921. An advertisement for a newspaper The San Antonio Light published in 1918, the exact phrase was used and it is widely accepted as a journalistic and advertisement design principle.
Some images are so powerful, they make us stop to think. The art of good composition can be learned and it takes practice to take a good photo. Sometimes of course the shot is just right with subject, light and mood. This photo of a polar bear asleep on some drifting ice is this years winner in The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Nima Sarikhani took the photo in the Far North, off Norwayās Svalbard archipelago.
Please let me know what thoughts this image provokes in you?
There is much more information about the Peopleās Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023 Here
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