Phil Marion (227 million views - THANKS)
Memories of autumn floating in winter’s ice – Kew Beach, Toronto
There’s an analogy to be made between ice and photography. Ice is water frozen into a stable, solid state. Photography is light figuratively frozen into a stable, solid state. The formation of ice is akin to a photograph taken with a pinhole camera — a relatively slow process in which unrepeatable moments in time accrue and become fixed, extended beyond any actual individual moment.
The beauty of ice, of course, is that it undoes itself. A photograph never relaxes; ice unwinds and softens, it moderates its edges, weakens its grasp and the accumulation of moments is released to become new moments.
Isn’t it lovely, how the world works. Isn’t it just completely and utterly lovely.
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