Digital BW, The Print

Jnhugo,

Why do wet footprints on sand make you think of Jesus?  It may surprise you
to learn that many of "us" don't get the connection.

On 6/29/07, jnhugo <jnhugo@...> wrote:
>
>   Well many interesting comments and thoughtful answers although I'm a
> little worried about the guy that doesn't know why he likes one
> pizza
> more than the other (one taste better maybe?) a lot I will use in
> the
> introduction to the training session. Thanks for the great responses.
>
> One thing I had in mind when I posed the question is the power we as
> a society bestow upon
> the photographic image. Through our understanding and associations
> we
> give the photographic image the ability to transform and become
> significant. Every photograph of any quality or subject over the
> years becomes a document of what was and what is now not. A
> photographic image can grew in importance and significance. It can
> show more than it originally showed.
> A stupid
> shot of my dad standing proudly next to his new 1950 cadillac has
> through the magic of time become a document of my personal family
> history, a view of what affluence meant and looked like in the 50's,
> an image of a
> driving machine unlike anything made today. The simple image has
> grown in significance.
> Photographs have the a power to affect us on a very deep
> human level. We can relate to images, war photos remind us of the
> sacrifices, a photograph of cat hanging from it's claws becomes a
> poster found in offices world wide encouraging us to hold on.
> Footprints on wet sand makes us think of Jesus. A simple
> although excellent photograph of a clearing storm makes it's way to
> the white house and symbolizes the need to perserve wilderness.
> We take pictures in the same way "we" use to scratch on walls with
> burnt sticks-they are symbolic (although at first they seem literal)
> representations of who we are and how we live and what we find
> important.
>
>  
>


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