Smacked in the Face by Old Photographs

by Skip Cohen

As I've written about in the past, Sunday Morning Reflections is never about marketing and business, and I never know what I'm going to write about until I sit down at the computer. 

Today's journey in blogging started with a comment on Facebook, by Dani Brewer, my good buddy Duncan MacNab's daughter. I shared a shot of Duncan in my Thursday throwback post, and she added another photo to the growing images in my MacNab "collection." Her post got me thinking about the power of old photographs.

Off I went in search of images for a collage of very special people who have been in my life. The more I searched, the more I started to tear up until I finally took a short break just to cry. Yeah, I'm admitting it, but while the sadness of missing some extraordinary friends started the emotional avalanche, it finished with a smile over the pure joy of the memories they created.

I replied to Dani's comment - It's our photographs and videos that add to the immortality of those very special and so loved people who will always be in our lives, even when they aren't. 

And there it is, my point this morning: We're part of an amazing industry, but to often we get so caught up in the stress of business and the speed of life that we miss savoring the look in the rearview mirror. It's all those old photographs that allow us to return to those special moments in the past. They give friends we've lost a degree of immortality - and through the tears, just like the sun coming out at the end of a storm, those memories recharge our spirit and, for me, my love for imaging. I'd be lost without my photographs!

Wishing everybody a terrific day ahead and time to make new memories, and don't forget to capture them with a camera! Remember, today's photographs and videos will become tomorrow's most cherished memories. And if a picture is worth a thousand words, don't slow down on building your "library!"

Happy Sunday...or Monday if you're on the other side of the world.