Greetings from Amy and welcome to week 112 of Images and Words. My theme is "Worn", here is my entry:
I'm turning my Images and Words skills toward activism! This is the first image in a series that I think I'm going to call "Images and Common Thoughts" or "...Common Beliefs" or "...Ideas" or something like that? The goal is to help spread peace, love, and understanding by showing that different religions, philosophies, and science share common ideas even though they express those ideas differently. I chose "Poverty" for my first theme in this series because I had been reading different religious perspectives on the poor, then I remembered that Darwin was a very nice guy so I decided to see if I could find a quote from him about the poor. When it only took me about 30 seconds to find it I realized that helping the poor is a truly universal ideal and I needed to make this I&W. My photo is my son's shoes, d'oh! He's been resisting letting me buy him new shoes because money is tight, but honestly it's not THAT tight. We CAN afford to buy him new shoes, so I'm hoping that with his old shoes now immortalized he'll let me buy him a new pair.
I posted this photo on a few different pages on Facebook and it received a great response! A lot of people shared it, and one person made it her profile picture. I was really honored when a professor of religious studies said she wanted to use this image for her class! She said that to make her Survey of Religions class more interesting she was taking a special look at the theme of "poverty" and how religions deal with it. So I sent her a full size version of this photo and just asked her to keep my copywrite in tact, she's a pastor so I trust that she will.
I feel that "Poverty" is too narrow a theme for Images and Words so I'm choosing "Worn." If you want to do "Poverty" then feel free, otherwise I think and hope that "Worn" will be a broad and fun theme.
The Rules:
Each week we will post an original photo with words on it. The idea behind this group is to expand our minds through our photography.
Photos must be your own, but the words can be someone else's as long as credit is given after the words.
Your post can either be serious, or if you'd like comical, but never obscene .
Posts can either have one word on them,quotes, or full poems ... Your choice.
All posts are to be done on your own site in a blog form with a link back to it being left here.
New topics will be posted on Sundays.
Posts can be made through Saturday.
One post per person only please.
Each week we will post an original photo with words on it. The idea behind this group is to expand our minds through our photography.
Photos must be your own, but the words can be someone else's as long as credit is given after the words.
Your post can either be serious, or if you'd like comical, but never obscene .
Posts can either have one word on them,quotes, or full poems ... Your choice.
All posts are to be done on your own site in a blog form with a link back to it being left here.
New topics will be posted on Sundays.
Posts can be made through Saturday.
One post per person only please.
