CONTENT

"Content" refers to the meaning or message of an image, the thoughts and ideas that it conveys.

For instance, in this first image the subject is the two wedding rings that sit there. However, the content goes deeper than that - the image refers to the idea of two lives being joined as one. That two different people with two different symbolic rings are together and will be making vows to one another. The image of the two rings has a meaning beyond just that they are sitting there on a table - they represent a wedding, a union of two people.

The second image's content involves a woman and her son. They obviously live in a different part of the world than we do, and it looks like they could be quite poor. The boy looks saddened and like they are facing hardship. The woman looks hardened and like she is wary of the photographer. The content of this image touches on issues of people and humanity and social justice, of poverty and love and the specialness of being created in the image of God. We resonate with two people in completely different circumstances than us, and have a hard time reconciling and understanding the differences we see in the conditions they live in. It is hard for us to feel settled while looking at her and her child's faces.

The third image is one that I took. I felt this conveyed the topic of content well. We are able to see someone's feet as they cross a bridge in a scenic and wild area. It makes us think of adventure and journeys and wonder where she is going. The direction of the bridge and the direction she is walking all hint to a greater story than just a simple image of a random object.