You know when you stop, take a picture, post on social networks and then every five minutes you check how many likes you have? It is certain that we can all, to a greater or lesser extent, recognize ourselves in this story.
We have become the "selfie" generation.
We carefully choose the photos we will publish, whether we look good, what the environment in which we took photos looks like, whether the light is good enough... the better all these parameters are, the more likes we will have.
How many likes do you think we would get if we took a photo at this location? The bay is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful parts of our country, but in the foreground here we still have improperly dumped waste.
Although we had already imagined a very nice photo on these red stairs, our attention was drawn, again, to the waste. And that waste doesn't come from nowhere. We create that waste. Sometimes we make excuses that the container was not close.
And even when it is, this is what happens:
How many times have you all seen irresponsible individuals throw trash next to instead of in the dumpster?
However, it seems that nowhere are our bad waste habits more visible than on water bodies. It's as if water mirrors serve to reflect our reality more clearly. Instead of finding peace and pure nature by the river, lake, sea, we will often find plastic bags, bottles, corks...
Would you choose this location for a trip? Ask yourself that the next time, maybe out of care, you decide to throw a plastic bottle or can anywhere...
The coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns it brought have once again highlighted the importance of green spaces and clean nature. Nature has told us that we have to adapt and adapt if we want to survive.
Yesterday, the European Day of Parks was celebrated throughout our continent. This year's slogan is: Parks - The next generation.
We are that next generation. We may be the selfie generation, as they call us, but we are certainly the ones who need to act now. From the point of view of photography, in the perspective of the selfie it is us, and what is in the wider perspective? A brand whose roots are in pure nature, Nikšićko Pivo, with its new platform Nikšićko Green, says: the broader perspective is always NATURE.
So, turn your camera outwards today. See nature in that new, different way. Let's not throw garbage where we can, pick up the waste we find in nature, share these messages with close people.
And let's collect as many likes as possible for nature through a little effort from each of us, because we all share it.
