Mark ~ JerseyStyle Photography
Cell Phone. Parasol. Fedora
Yesterday is gone. We can visit the same resort that we went to as kids and the same types of summer people will still do the same summer things. There will be men in hats and women in espadrilles, families will drag packed coolers over hot sand, and a small child will cry as an ice cream goes splat on the sidewalk. It will reassure us that some things are set in stone, but scratch the surface and we know; yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow is unknown. Sure we make predictions based on global warming, government austerity programs, patterns of migration, whether Mercury will be in retrograde when Putin is in his dacha. Banks pay geeks to write algorithms, historians cite patterns from the past, but these are just best guesses.
We have today. We have a picture of a dude with a cell phone nurturing his beer gut, we have a woman with a parasol and elegant posture, we have a man with a fedora, he is forever looking out to sea. Although they are already gone, they were frozen for the time Mark took this picture, frozen while you looked at this image. Cell phone, parasol and fedora, objects from different times all mashed up in one forever summer moment.
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