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Request: What are your favorite powerful images?

I’m looking for examples of powerful, effective images, either word pictures or real pictures.

Word pictures can include things like scenes from novels, speeches, dialog from a play, vivid descriptions of people or scenery from magazine or newspaper articles, or even familiar similies like “as stupid as dirt.” If there are some words that made you almost literally see what the other person was talking about, let me know about them. For example, throughout his I have a dream speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. used words to paint images; of the current civil-rights situation in America, and of what the future could hold if everyone embraced his vision.

Literal pictures can include anything from the world of art (paintings, sketches, sculptures), or photographs, animations, or movies that clearly communicate a message. For example, the scene from the TV show  I Love Lucy, where Lucy and Ethel are working in the candy factory is a great image of gradually being overwhelmed by little things coming at you faster and faster.

So let’s have them. What are your favorite images? 

Posted on Friday, October 6, 2006 at 06:47AM by Registered CommenterRoy Jacobsen in | Comments2 Comments

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I bookmarked this post to think about it, and then I went to check the local news in the Honolulu Advertiser. Today they have a series of photos http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Oct/06/ln/photos.html from the 3rd Marine Regiment's homecoming yesterday here on the base where I live. When I see photos like these (or welcome home signs on houses here on base), I remember all the homecomings our family has experienced, including the one when my husband met his daughter for the first time. Photos like that never fail to make me cry, and I suspect I'm not the only military wife to react that way. When I see photos like these, I simultaneously remember joy, hardship of deployments, and answers to prayers. And I rejoice with those who are rejoicing.
October 6, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterAnne
Anne,
Thanks for the link; those are some great pictures.
October 6, 2006 | Registered CommenterRoy Jacobsen

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