Classic Imagery

Thursday we accompanied John, Anna and their children to tour the new Phoenix LDS Temple. It was not a new experience because we have toured many of the latest newly constructed buildings in recent years.

I had both a film and a digital camera that I could use to capture the memory.

As we progressed, Joshua and Adam posed for the above pictures. When I saw the outcome, they closely resembled classic images that parents have made of their children in locations like this since the invention of the camera. In fact they closely mirror photos my mother made each year at the beginning or end of school. To a large extent they define family photography. I toned them to reinforce those similarities even though they were shot digitally.

58 Years Ago.

This film photo of Anna, Ella and Janie was less traditional.

This squinty-eyed shot is more traditional and captures this family in the sunny hot splendor of an Arizona October day. All of these images are history for the next generation.

Photographs allow children in a family to have images they can reconnect with later in life.