When we sit and look through photos of our childhood we are looking back at our past, we can had the sounds and feel the emotions that we once experienced all over again.
When I sit with my son and daughter and show them images of their great grandfather and grandfather, both died when they were very young or before they were born, I can tell them stories about them and they have a face to relate to, eyes to look at and smiles to see. All provide them with the tools they need to experience events and people who they never met. Just a short trip with My Camera, My Time machine.
I was looking back on photos of my wife and children, spanning a little over 20 years, not very long in the scheme of things, but it feels like several lifetimes sometimes. Looking back helps me to reestablish the feelings that started me out on this journey as husband and father, to remember us as a young couple, with we knew not what experiences in front of us, we started a new adventure together. The arrival of our children, my son is now 20 and my daughter 15 and when I look back on them as very young children I remember thinking a lot about what sort of people they would develop into, what the future held for them. I think the journey for them so far has been interesting and rewarding, but their journeys end is still a long way ahead of them yet and I wonder what they will remember when they to look back on these photos, as well as the new once we take along the way. Will they take that short trip in time with My Camera, My Time Machine?
We should all remember the value of the recorded moment. Video is wonderful, but I think it provides a separate, but equally valuable, view into the past. The video can be a little overwhelming and perhaps transmits to much data, whereas the photo is a freeze frame of a moment, where our minds have to work to remember and provide a link between the present and the past. The photo will always be the preferred medium for me taken with, My Camera, My Time Machine.
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