A Moment Caught In Time

I was thinking today of my photograph from December 2010 of the young monk (Pra Kao 15) from Wat Loo-ung in Chiang Khong, Thailand.

I made this photo and another variation of (a closer head shot) just over 1 year ago, so much has changed since then.

http://gerryyaum.blogspot.com/2011/03/young-monk.html

That moment in time is gone forever but in a way it lives on in the photograph (possibly for hundreds of years in the Alberta art collection), such is the power of photography. That short moment in time now has a life of its own that's recorded, remembered and preserved. The young monk boy Kao is now not a monk any longer, he has returned to school to continue his studies, the temple wall behind him in the portrait is now painted a bright white, only the bench remains, everything else has forever changed.

You got to love photographs!