Ciampi Francesca Ciampi Ms.

Caruso English 1101 26 September 2011

The text I chose is a stunningly, real photograph of the leaves changing and falling at the Hendersonville Country Club in autumn, 2008. This picture mean so much to me because it is something Ive experienced the act of, what is represents for so many different people and views, and what memories it invokes in my mind. Living in a city with four seasons has showed me more then just a slow changing for cold to warm and warm to cool, it has influenced change in habits almost as a fall season resolution. The purpose of the text I chose by Jeff Miller is to inspire change and to, oddly enough, provoke hunger. I witnessed this photograph first at my second job in high school in January 2009. This photograph was being sold for a whopping five hundred dollars! People admired it from a far and ran from a close range after seeing the price. Personally, I hoped no one rich enough would ever walk in the restaurant to purchase the photograph so I could continue my day dreaming while looking at it. This photo has strong, different hues of orange, green and brown. For a picture to have a palette of three colors and still be a powerful photo is very rare and I believe this is why Jeff Miller is so wonderful at what he does. Having three colors represent something so strong and attractive is a very difficult thing to do. Jeff Miller is the photographer of this particular photograph, capturing the alluring colors the trees produce in the fall in Hendersonville, NC. I, firsthand, have experienced the mindblowing colors the trees turn in the fall and never fully appreciated them until I left Hendersonville and moved to a city of two seasons a year. This photograph or text gives me a

Ciampi flush of memories from my high schools football games; the crisp, bittersweet smell of the school year starting back up again and the sounds of popcorn popping before the big, rival football game. This picture brings me back even further into my past when my sister and I actually would stand in our massive back yard and see who could catch more leaves in a certain amount of time. The sounds of the leaves crunching below us for weeks as we walked our dog, Foster, around the neighborhood and back is a small background noise in my head as I glare at this print in Square 1 bistro. Fall is an inevitable time of year in the western North Carolina, and this image depicts it perfectly. The photograph represents so much for so many people. Change is one theme in this photograph that is undoubtedly picked up when one is thinking about the ideas of the photograph. Despite Jeff Millers intentions for the photograph, one might take back the idea of change in all aspects of life; politically, socially, and economically for Americans during the time this picture was taken. With politics up in the air in the year of 2008, when this photo was taken, he might have thought of taking this photo of fall and change because of the new president Obamas platform of change in America. The most obvious change has been that George Bush is no longer the president. I imagine that even this very apparent change in America has taken place many Americans may look at the painting and initially think of change

in their world, their lives and others but there has been a massive change in social class and race. A man of African American descent had just recently been elected to be one of the greatest and one of the most important men in the free world. This in itself shows the greatest amount of change the United States of America has initiated in years. This text can be easily represented in many ways but Jeff Miller chose photography. I believe that viewers, like me, of this image think photography is wonderful way to represent this

Ciampi purpose. There are obviously many other images and different genres to represent change with, such as: paintings, poems, songs, (etc.) However, Jeff Miller is a photographer and obviously does that best because he chose that for his career path. Photography as a genre for the idea of change is rare and usually is represented in poems. A quote from an Ethan Allen poem:

a change of schools, begin again/ A change of age, a change of space/ A change of morals, A change of rules/ A change of sails, blowing you into the unknown. (Allen, 9-12)

This poem represents transformation of humans, money, rules, friend, (etc.) (Allen) In my opinion, Ethan Allen does an excellent job of putting forth an action and giving many examples of the action; thus being change. I believe this poem could actually be portrayed under the photograph taken by Jeff Miller to further embody what Miller was trying to convey to the viewer about fall. Millers photograph is very similar to Ethan Allens poem, changes, specifically in the line about changing of schools, which we all know takes place in the early fall conveys Jeff Millers purpose for posing the picture as such in what season. Another successful purpose of Jeff Millers nature collection photography, specifically the picture of autumn, may be to provoke hunger upon the viewers. This also explains why this photograph is displayed in the front of a restaurant and is so popular with the customers. After a small amount of research, an online source explains, A variety of colors can trigger hunger. The most influential colors in terms of food are: red, orange, yellow and green. (Willams) Coincidence? I think not. One might wonder after hearing this research that possibly the owner

Ciampi of the restaurant asked for a photo with these colors to display at the front of his restaurant. After all, the more the customers order the more money he makes. The audience of this photograph is changes from day to day. One day, in square one,

during the apple festival, thousands of middle aged, family men, might glance at it and recognize it as a piece of art, perfectly posing the time of the year in Hendersonville, NC. Other days, the restaurant may have a slow day with snow or rain with maybe thirty senior citizens glancing at the photograph reminiscing on times when they would scramble through the leaves on a chilly fall afternoon with their grandchildren. Nonetheless, I believe Jeff Miller was hoping to generate a well-off group of senior citizens looking to spend money on his very expensive collection, not only to gain profit but to also help the elderly recollect on the past. This audience is presumed effortlessly using the artists choice of location: inside Square One Bistro on the famously historic center of Hendersonville on Main Street. All in all, Jeff Millers photograph proved effective in two purposes: to inspire change of those viewing the photograph and pleasing the restaurant owner by influencing his customers to think they are hungrier then they were before they saw the photograph. The audience of Jeff Millers photograph is a widely varied group of uninterested and interested spectators. Some look at the photograph and feel nothing and others become overwhelmed with feelings, whether that feeling is hunger; recollection or urge to change is up to those of the viewers. Although, some purposes may be overlooked by many, and some people might write off the image as a mere photograph, those who dig deep end up finding the real meanings and purposes of all things. After all, every object, action, person, mishap and sentence has a purpose.

Ciampi Appendix

Ethan Allen

A change in time, a change in place A change of jobs, a change of pace change your style or change your friends change your path and change the end Chance for a 20, change for a 10 Change for the bus, 'Change please, friend' A change of homes, a change of kin A change of friends you never win a change of schools, begin again A change of age, a change of space A change of morals, A change of rules A change of sails, blowing you into the unknown

Ciampi Works Cited

Your Body's Relationship with Food: What Triggers Hunger? Associatedcontent.com. Yona Williams, Web. 7 Aug. 2006.