Did you know May is designated at his National Photo month? It's a perfect opportunity to celebrate by taking lots and lots of photos. There are some particularly well-suited events for photographs in May, such as Mother's Day and Memorial Day but today let's talk about you-- You need to be photographed!
You see, photography reaches us in a way few other things in life can. It celebrates milestones. It creates memories and it stops time. All it asks is for us to be unselfish by allowing ourselves to be photographed. Just take a look at that photo above with the boy and his cat. Can you guess? Yes! That's me at age 10. The milestone was summer vacation at Grandma's! The memory? Sunshine died many years ago. Not only can I relive holding him, but I can see my happy little face too. Stopping time? Right there. Me at age 10. Bonus, the photo was taken by my Grandma. Side note- she tried to retire by closing her studio in town but had so many people still calling her, that she opened a small studio (with darkroom) in her basement and worked casually for a few more years. Now back to my cat. I worked an entire summer to catch and tame him. It worked. We were inseparable. Sunshine was a long-haired orange cat born from a stray that lived at Grandma's.
While taking a break the other night, I opened one of my old photo albums. The photo I happened to turn to showed Sunshine when I was 14. We discovered him all snuggled up in the bathroom sink, completely overflowing it. I was instantly taken back to that time of my life, remembering the fun he and I had and the number of times we found him in that same sink when he was too hot or on the top shelf of the kitchen cupboard (even though the cupboard door had been closed). I know that whenever I open that album or my others, my kids will likely want to look also. They love looking through those photos! I am quite sure they enjoy seeing me at different stages of my life. It's just like they say- photographs are passed through the generations.
I enjoy looking through my parent's albums and all the photos we find in boxes at my grandma's. My wife and I have photos of our kids at different stages in their lives on our picture wall in the living room. Her parents created albums for each of our kids which everyone loves to look through.
Though it may seem trivial at the time, that photograph of you has the ability to affect many people in your life for well, generations. Including you! Plus, photos are just plain fun to look at.
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