Memorable Family Moments Caught by Photography

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Memorable Family Moments Caught by Photography

Family photographs have enabled me to develop a way to keep my family

with me all the time, even when they are really not there. These

pictures of my family represent a wide variety of importance and

emotions in my life. Many of them serves as a link to my home life,

since I am away at college without my family I allow their pictures to

be decorations (memoirs) in my apartment. Some of them mean more than

others, some are recent, and others come from my childhood. A picture

I have framed on the center wall in my apartment is of my family on

vacation this summer; it depicts our true "selves" and exemplifies how

much we truly love one another.

I am standing on the left side of my father in this photo with my mom

on his left and my brother on hers. We are on vacation at the Atlantis

Resort and as I look at this picture of my family a warm, delightful

feeling rushes over me. I remember the exact day it was taken and all

the wonderful things that occurred on this trip. We are standing in

front of the same decorative wall by the pools, as my brother was the

night before when he proposed to his girlfriend, Leslie, of six years.

Our annual family vacation is normally to Amelia Island, but this year

we went further away to a totally different environment. Our pictures

from this trip look different from our other family vacation photos,

yet we are still the same loving family.

Ideas of the traditional, typical, yet blissful family vacation that

many families try to take each year is what I think of when I see

pictures like this one. Whether or not a family has the capability of

affording some...

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is generally never the same for two different people. This family

photo at the Atlantis is important to me because it is of my loving

family while we are away from the stresses of one typical day-to-day

life and our having a good time with one another. Yet, from my brother

and Leslie who got engaged on the trip it holds many other memories

and importance. Emotions can arise from almost any type pf picture you

own, but a family photograph, especially one where the families "real"

selves can be seen, can illuminate a person's heart to many feelings

of contentment and self-belonging. Family photography has existed

throughout time and holds a special meaning to all of us, yet how we

interpret it and use it in our own life depends on the way we feel

truly feel about the ones who stand in the photograph with us.

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