Pictures that pose questions

This images symbolises the way our childhood seems to pass so quickly. Childhood now seems to be a little like a dream, like someone else lived it, although inside I am still that small kid sometimes.

The telephone wires and the road perhaps signify the journey we travel and how we are linked through our ability to communicate.

Then again perhaps it is just an out of focus picture of a little girl running along a road. The joy of photography is that I can present you with an image. You have to also do some of the work in interpreting it. All I can say is the photograph was meant to be and I chose it.

I think photographs should get people to think and to ask questions.

Cheers,
Paul
www.indigo2photography.co.uk

Comments

Andreas said…

Paul,

that's the third or fourth time that I stumble over your blog via photographyvoter.com., but this is the first time I feel the compulsion to comment.

Goodness, this is a wonderful image. I love how the girl is, well, not out of focus, no she is ahead of us. You are absolutely right, this is an image about time, and about precious moments that can't ever be conserved.

Andreas

22:19

Beyond the obvious said…

Thanks Andreas. I wondered if people would 'get it'. You obviously do.

Cheers,
Paul

22:29

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