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07/22/2005 03:45:44 PM · #26
Thank you so much Marius, Scott and Sandy for sharing your stories too...OMG...I'm running out of kleenex! And Brent...that heart of yours must still be so raw...but you know what? You'll never forget your first girl but you will move on, I bet you're tired of hearing that right? I thought my first boyfriend was the one...we dated for over four years...and what was the beginning of the end?...a photograph...yep...I found a nasty little polaroid of him in a rather unsavory situation with a stripper taken at a bachelor party. To this very day I can still see this hideous image pretty clearly...and when I do...I think to myself...THANK GOD I DID NOT MARRY THAT CRITTER! Now I have a guy who truly loves me and I him...things are sometimes just meant to be.
07/22/2005 03:55:58 PM · #27
I learnt this morning via email of the passing of a very dear internet friend of mine. We met on a travel forum years ago and met in person in San Francisco (at a GTG of members of that forum) sometime around 2000 (give or take a year). Since then we have become much closer friends via a small, private internet community which I created and my friend participated in. It's a community that is very open, we talk about our families, our politics, our opinions on everything under the sun, our memories of grandparents, childhood, school, our problems and joys at work and at home, we share jokes and we share tears too. My friend was such a warm person and I always assumed we'd meet again sometime. Though he's been through some serious health problems in the last year I don't think any of us expected to lose him. It was hard to concentrate on training my class all day and then facing the 2.5 hour journey home (because of disruption due to the recent terrorist incidents in London) as I was constantly thinking of my friend.

I don't have any photos of him let alone of us together when we met.

He will be missed just as much with or without those photos but I sure wish I had some.
07/22/2005 04:21:58 PM · #28
Thank you everyone, especially Amber for starting this thread. It's not easy sharing this, and most of the time I typed her story, I couldn't see the keyboard for the tears. The worst part is that I could not show her how I feel while she was alive. I could not feel this way. While trying to come to grips with this, I go through my life with her again, and again, scene for scene knowing what she must have felt, and come away with greater shame at my actions. One thing I have learnt is that regret is useless, but the pain never goes away. It is what I do from here on out with my own family that counts now.

By the way, I have just come from the bookstore. I got the "World Press Photo 05" book. If emotive photography is your thing, grab a box of kleenex, a bottle of wine (or two) and go through that. See if you come out the other side untouched.
07/22/2005 07:26:43 PM · #29
In the spirit of this wonderful thread...

Two days after my sweet "baby sister" Kelly died in a car accident at the age of 26, leaving behind a 3 year old son who was safe in my parent's care; I landed in Phoenix, and went straight to my parents house and, along with my brothers and sisters, ravaged my Mom's big old cardboard box of family photographs.

My sister was not one to have her picture taken often, preferring to be behind the camera, and and it was difficult to find many photos of her. We all needed those photographs- needed to hold them, to look at them, to reminisce about when they were taken. We desperately needed those little "life rafts".

We ended up using one of my graphite portraits of her at the funeral because we just couldn't find any good photos that were not old and worn.

These many years later, I have managed to collect quite a number of photos of Kelly from various family members, and many of our friends in the nuclear business that we worked in for so many years. I owe each and every one of those people a debt of gratitude for the priceless treasures that they gave to me with such caring and love.

This past Christmas, I put all of those photographs in chronological order and made a video CD with beautiful music, for each member of our family. My husband wasn't sure it was an "appropriate" Christmas gift, but I knew that it was. It took me a week to put that CD together and get the music right, having never done anything like before, and I cried every single time I watched it, but oh, how wonderful it was to see all those photographs, and have all those sweet memories heal my heart. And every single member of my family treasures those photographs.

Yes, The Power of Photographs, indeed.

Linda
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