The word "captures" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to when something or someone is taken hold of, either literally or figuratively. For example, "The artist's painting captures the beauty of the sunset."
Perhaps my favourite of the lot is the clip below of King Krule, which captures the singer at 14 entering a Glastonbury unsigned artists competition.
Usually, the Street View team captures a street with a camera fixed to car that automatically records its surroundings.
According to the Guardian's review, Homes "captures the enchantment of generosity – that sense of adventure you get when you step out of your own circle of need into someone else's, and the weird feeling of invulnerability it gives you.
Ian Finch, senior producer for BBC Sport who looks after the music, said: "This song perfectly captures the feelgood, carnival atmosphere we will bring to our viewers during the World Cup this summer.
With the help of Henning Kristiansen's atmospheric cinematography, in a range of muted primary colours, Axel captures the bleak Jutland peninsula of the 1870s, where live two unmarried sisters (Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel), daughters of the former pastor, and founder of an austere religious sect, who devote themselves to keeping alive his memory and his teachings in the tiny remote community.
It can also be very exciting, as on those rare occasions when a populist campaign captures a major party.
David Goodhart, founder of the upscale Prospect magazine and (on his own admission) a reformed "public school leftie and ex-Marxist" captures the distress in his new book, The British Dream, now being serialised in (I wonder why? Ho, ho) the Daily Mail.
These are just three of the mysterious images in Shanxi, a hauntingly beautiful photobook by the Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao, which captures the age-old rituals of the annual lunar new year festival in the country's Shanxi province.
The experience-based co-design (EBCD) toolkit is a distinctive approach, which captures the experiences of patients, carers and staff through discussion, observation and filmed interviews; then brings them together to explore findings and to work in small groups to feed this into service improvement.
Totally over the top, actually, but I was young then, and full of hope, and I think it kind of captures some of the lyrical spirit that suffuses the soul when eating beside the sea.
Reck captures antisemitism in a story of a Jewish woman forced out of her apartment by an SS officer; savagery in the east is recorded mercilessly and ecstatically by a Wehrmacht observer of air-raids in Poland.
