Click on the link to the right for photographs from Hong Kong and Phu Quoc.
Of course for a writer to say every picture tells a story there is a little twisting going on, like the writer knows there's a pun to be had at his own expense. Surely, he will say, when recovering his composition, every picture SHOWS a story, it doesn't tell it and then maybe with a touch of hubris he will say you need words to aid the visual, to elucidate the picture, to extrapolate meaning. What happened before, what happened after...
Or, with continuing Hugh Briss, the writer could caption each photograph with something witty, profound or sweet; be a sloganeer or a Hallmarked contributor; have a keyboard dripping with honey or treackly, trite truisms. But then captions seem like the worst of both worlds; a shoddy bridge between image and word; dumbing down the viewer with unnecessary description and ruining any evocative possibility in word.
So, is this a longwinded and pompous way of saying look at some photos of my marriage to Kate, ceremony and celebration, in Hong Kong and Phu Quoc ? Of course it is. This is a sample of photos received and big thanks to Charmaine, Robert and Carolyn. More to follow
