Making/Taking

I took this photograph two years ago when my family and I traveled to Las Vegas during the summer.  I was fortunate enough to witness one of the many attractions Las Vegas had to offer.  This attraction in particular was The Mirage Hotel Volcano Show.  Using my cell phone, I was able to take a photograph  of the vol-cano the moment it erupted.  As you can see, as it erupted, the water and fire shot straight up, but before combusting into the air.  As John Szarkowski depicts in "Introduction to the Photographer's Eye", "All  photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time".(Szarkowski 101)  In other words, it is because of photography that we, as a society, are able to freeze time and study what we can see as a photograph.  The concept of my reading was "Making/Taking", which ties in with my photograph well.  I was able to make or create a situation where I had enough distance, proper lighting, and a well centered location to capture the moment the volcano erupted as best as I could and interpret what had happened.  As we all know, water and fire can shoot too fast for our brains to compute. However, with  photography we are able to analyze such quick events into a still, yet comprehensible visual representation.