After weeks of rain and even snow I was greeted this morning to an absolutely Homeric rosey fingered dawn. It made me thinks of what the coming months would bring and of a photograph that I took last July at Halibut Point in Rockport, MA. What is more summer than black-eyed Susies? So for me this photograph was the distilled essence of all my summers: the heat, the brilliant sunlight, the flowers, and the birds. Black-eyed Susies are a childhood flower. They are almost personified.

I remember vividly taking this photograph and that contributes a tripartite substance to the image. You take the image and in the moment it says “summer” to you. You are flooded with memories of all the summers of your life. It is quintessentially summer. And finally you carry around with you,”forever,” the memory of the taking of the image.

I think that in general when you take a photograph that you are “happy with,” the memory of the taking, the creative act and what it meant to you stays with you. Such is the magic of photography.