House on Fire
This week’s P52 subject was “House on Fire.” This week was much more difficult than last week’s “Selfie.” As a reminder the P52 project is a weekly photo submission with a group of other photographers. The topic is posted and then we are all left to our own creativity to come up with an image that fits within the subject.
House on fire is just as it sounds, if your home was on fire, what 10 items would you take with you (assuming your family/pets are already safe)? Spending time thinking about all the tangible items you have and giving them priority was not a simple task. I was surprised to find that the items I always imagined I would run out of my house with, should this ever happen, did not even make the list for me.
My camera is very important to me, in fact it at times is almost an extension of me. However, it can be replaced. I can purchase every item in my camera bag at any given time. Therefore, it did not make the list. In fact, how many things do we have that I love, that I couldn’t acquire again? Here is what I ended up with:
This rings are all irreplaceable to me. They do not hold higher monetary value than many things in our home, but the sentimental value of them cannot be measured. Among these rings are my Grandfather’s Class Ring, my Mother’s Wedding Ring & My Wedding Ring. Lastly, the computer that they are being viewed on. This computer holds digital images of our family from the beginning. I would be devastated to not have photo’s of my children as infants, as they have hit each wonderful milestone.
Have you thought about what you would take? Feel free to leave comments below, I would love to know what you value. Be sure to follow our blog circle to see what the other ladies in the group decided to take with them. Up next is Drea E, be sure to see her House on Fire post by clicking HERE.
Danielle is an Edwardsville newborn photographer also specializing in children, maternity and family photography in Edwardsville, Illinois and the surrounding areas including Glen Carbon, Maryville, Troy, Collinsville, O’Fallon, and St. Louis, Missouri. – See more of her work on Instagram!
Wow, what beautiful rings you have!! I love the picture, too. I didn’t even think about my computer. I think I would want to take mine too, or at least my EHD. <3
This is SUCH a good question! I’m not even sure what I would grab. The first thing that comes to mind is my computer hard drives since ALL of my photos of my kids are on them!
Beautiful photograph! This was such a thought-provoking exercise!
What a lovely and meaningful collection of rings. I agree about losing the computer, I’d probably grab it if I had time, but just to save the time of restoring from the cloud backup. Not sure I’d be that worried about that if I’m dealing with an insurance claim on the house, though!
I lhave be that you showed your workflow settings. That’s a supercool way to share this photo.
Rings are wonderful, aren’t they? Great way to display them for a photo.
What a creative way to show you’d bring the computer!
Interesting how you photographed the computer with the ring photo in Lightroom.