INFINITESIMAL

January 21, 2010

Infinitesimal
\in-‘fi-ne-‘te-se-mel\ adj 1: taking on values arbitrarily close to but greater than zero 2: immeasurably or incalculably small.*

When a photograph is taken, not only is the image viewed as it was, but a story is told to the photographer and the various audiences to which it is inspected. The story that is shared with many different people is not at all representative of the infinitesimal size of each pixel that is responsible for the ultimate end result.
Whether it be wire angels blowing their horns in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree or a statue that fosters emotion while telling tales of adventure of a new people about to set foot in a new city, photographs do not signify the pixilation or perhaps even the amount of work it took to gain the picture. It just conveys a story with a myriad of varying interpretations for all who gaze upon it.

*letter “e” is upside down producing sound of “uh”