Photographs and memories

Someone just let me know that a good friend has passed away. I've known him for quite some time. I wanted to look back at some photos, but I realized that somehow these two interestests, my friend, and my hobby, had never really intersected.

It's a curious thing. All I have left are memories -- no photos.

Bob Rogers said:

Someone just let me know that a good friend has passed away. I've known him for quite some time. I wanted to look back at some photos, but I realized that somehow these two interestests, my friend, and my hobby, had never really intersected.

It's a curious thing. All I have left are memories -- no photos.

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Bob,

Gradually memories, which are plastic, get remolded into something that has the sharp corners rubbed of and the crevices filled in. Photographs, on the other hand emphasize split seconds that are also hardly representative. So we might say, "Weren't they a good couple!", relying on the pictures but if we kept a day by day diary of our experiences with them, we'd be really surprised at the extreme opinions they generated.

Asher

Bob,

Three reasons for taking pictures: memories and beating immortality and trying to bring home what we cannot.

Asher

Photos can be wonderful memory joggers and even memorials.

I heard of a woman whose young son was killed in Afghanistan and in the six weeks he had been there before his death he had photographed as he went about his life. Although his camera was destroyed in the incident that caused his death, the meory card survived and she has his pictures as a memorial of his last weeks.

Mike