Tim - My Memory

At first I wasn't really sure what memory I wanted to use for this project.  I have a lot of memories from my middle and high school years but I couldn't really think of anything from my childhood until I remember a vacation that my family and I took to Florida when I was really young.  This trip is the only time I've ever been to Florida so it's definitely important to me but what made it stick out was all of the feelings I began to remember as the memory became more clear.  The overall sense of my memory that I want to covey is that it was a time in my life when I really loved going to the beach, playing in the sand and going swimming in the water even though it was really cold and kind of dangerous.  I met this other kid that I was around my age and we jump into the smaller incoming waves because much further out the waves were huge.  I remember watching my dad and my brother out in the water and when the big waves came them and some other people would jump through the wave and come out safely on the other side.  Being somewhat curious and stupid, as most children are when they're young I decided to go out a little further into the ocean and when I tried to jump through one of the bigger waves I got pulled under the water and almost drowned.  On a more positive note I also remember playing board games with my parents, getting buried in the sand, and being really really happy.

Although I don't have may pictures from that vacation I want to use simple imagery such as pictures of the ocean, sand, beach toys, ect.. to convey the emotions and feelings of my memory.  I do have pictures that I've taken of other beaches or beach type environments which I could use along with creating imagery with any of the adobe programs.  Even if the images aren't from my memory I want the viewer to feel that they are and still be able to understand the overwhelming emotions that I felt when I was caught up in the wave, laughing with my parents, or splashing around in the water.