A Picture is (Literally) Worth a Thousand Words: Memorable Family Moments Caught by Photography

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A Picture is (Literally) Worth a Thousand Words: Memorable Family Moments Caught by Photography (1,333 words)    Family photographs have enabled me to develop a way to keep my family with me all the time, even when they are really not there.  These pictures of my family represent a wide variety of importance and emotions in my life.  Many of them serves as a link to my home life, since I am away at college without my family I allow their pictures to be decorations (memoirs) in my apartment.   Some of them mean more than others, some are recent, and others come from my childhood.  A picture I have framed on the center wall in my apartment is of my family on vacation this summer; it depicts our true “selves” and exemplifies how much we truly love one another.     I am standing on the left side of my father in this photo with my mom on his left and my brother on hers. We are on vacation at the Atlantis Resort and as I look at this picture of my family a warm, delightful feeling rushes over me. I remember the exact day it was taken and all the wonderful things that occurred on this trip. We are standing in front of the same decorative wall by the pools, as my brother was the night before when he proposed to his girlfriend, Leslie, of six years. Our annual family vacation is normally to Amelia Island, but this year we went further away to a totally different environment. Our pictures from this trip look
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different from our other family vacation photos, yet we are still the same loving family.     Ideas of the traditional, typical, yet blissful family vacation that many families try to take each year is what I think of when I see pictures like this one. Whether or not a family has the capability of affording some sort of vacation, they normally try to get their family together at least once a year and go on either a one-day excursion or short trip.  These are usually the times where they snap pictures of their love ones to create memories of happy, quality ...

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