At the moment the Edinburgh International Film Festival is on, so there’s always stuff going on in and around the Filmhouse on Lothian Rd. When we walked passed there on the weekend, we noticed that there was a big panel set up with the most wonderfully vibrant graffiti art all over it. My youngest son was just enchanted by it, and so we left off what we were doing and walked over to it. I took a couple of photos, and then passed the camera over to my son so he could take a few of his own:
(The 1st shot is mine, while the rest show what my wee boy saw through the lens)
After taking our time to enjoy the art, we then left to pick up my other 2 kids. To get back to the car, however, we had to walk passed the spot where the panel was, and we were surprised to see that it had all been dismantled already and there were a few guys in the process of packing it into the back of a van. A true lesson in impermanence, perhaps, but also a lesson in carpe diem - sieze the day.
Don’t let the moment pass you by - grab it, experience it, enjoy it, share it and then move on to the next.
Life is full of moments - have more of them.
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I love the fact that you “passed” the camera to your son and shared the experience so that both of you could look through the camera and offer different viewpoints.
Amy, wonderful pics, I hope he’s proud of his moment of glory! I had seen the pics in your photostream and wondered what they were from.
I’m glad you managed to seize a moment and escape for a brief respite from the writing. Hope it’s going okay
Joanna
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I sign all my posts.. Carpe Diem. And I dedicated a post to Seize the Day.. too funny.
Thanks for sharing.
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We have a guy here who can paint the most amazing murals with spray paint. He did a series for the art museum where he recreated their paintings as murals. Amazing, really. And so beautiful. People are so talented - like you and your son!
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Amy,
I really enjoyed your post and the fact that your son got to shoot from his vantage point. We bought a camera for my 11 year old nephew a year or so ago and he takes pictures all the time.
I also wanted to share something similar to the subject of the images with you. I work at the University of Florida in the Digital Library Center and we did a project a while ago that I thought you might find interesting. Here in Gainesville, Florida there is a wall along the side of one of the main north south roads and for years and years (nobody remembers exactly how many), the locals and the college students have used it for painting messages of all kinds. Our project was to try to document some of these, both from the present and from the past. We invited people to donate their snap shots of what they had painted on the wall or just what they had taken pictures of on the wall.
Anyways, go to the URL below and enjoy.
BTW, thank you for such and excellent blog, I read it often and enjoy it whenever I read it.
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=wall
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This is so true I missed a good opportunity for a RED photo because I didn’t seize the moment, and now it is too late. I wont let this happen again.
Amy, the photos you and your son took are simply amazing! And you are right, we should try to remind ourselves more often that most things are not even close to permanent. Especially when it comes to photography! One day without your camera close by can turn into missing out on something spectacular.
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