Our Pictures Tell Our Story

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​by Skip Cohen

It's Sunday morning, and as so often happens, I woke up without a clue about what I wanted to write about for Reflections. For inspiration, I wandered through my Facebook Albums. The more images I looked at, the more I smiled. A picture really is worth a thousand words because every image has a story, a tangible trip back in time to old friends, challenges, trips, workshops, and events that are a part of my personal "family" album.

Most of us have a love/hate relationship with Facebook, but Facebook has become the keeper of so many photographs and, in turn, memories. But we get so busy that we forget to look in the rearview mirror. Sometimes, the best way to appreciate where you're going is to remember where you've been.

I pulled some pictures for a collage that told a few stories ranging from my buddy Brent Watkins helping me get my page back on FB when they told me my name wasn't really "Skip," to Dean Collins and Nick Vedros hamming it up...and everything in between. And like the three degrees of separation game with Kevin Bacon, all the photographs can be connected.

It's not Throwback Thursday, but have some fun and take a walk through one of your online albums. We take so much for granted and rarely the time for a quick look back. We're part of an amazing industry that allows the world to stop time and revisit moments from the past that are as vivid as if they were just captured minutes ago!

It's another Jodi Picoult moment..."This is what I like about photographs: They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect!" 

Wishing everybody a day ahead worthy of shutter-clicking moments with the people you care about the most. Capture those memories so they can become tomorrow's throwbacks and tell your story. Go for those eleven-second hugs I always write about, and make it a day to remember.

Happy Sunday or Monday on the other side of the world.