33 Emotional Flavors, continued...

Walker, 2000, Gordon Stettinius

The fact that photography is utterly democratic also heightens the charm. Any and all who bother to wield a camera alongside themselves and their interests or loved ones might chance upon a brilliant instant. Young or old, experienced or amateur, there is always a good picture laying about waiting to be noticed. And further, once the picture has been made and that one instant recorded, from that moment on the value of the picture increases. because our children grow older just as we did and times are always changing. In so many ways, time will throttle through the present stirring up these brittle leaves of photographic memories. It is far better to press the best of them between pages than blow them to the curb where they will join the waste stream.