Photo Challenge

Weight(less)

Show us the effects of gravity in your photo this week.

Some of the things that always remind me of gravity include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • Dancing all night long after the age of 30.
  • Carrying a human baby for more than three minutes.
  • News of a plane crash right before I embark on a trip (because that’s when all planes crash).
  • Putting on skis for the first time in a couple of years.
  • Building blocks. Especially building blocks. Like the ones pictured below:
spiral

I was so proud of my elegant spiral, which I’d constructed while my kid was working on his far-superior (and far more gravity-defying) creation. Like Icarus, I wanted to get higher, higher, higher, if only by proxy. And just like him and his waxen wings, my spiral was punished for its ambition. It grew to be about a foot and a half tall, then it crashed. Gloriously.

This week, share a photo of something marked by its weight — or its air of weightlessness. Show us gravity at its most unforgiving, or most generous. Bricks or feathers. A collapsed ruin or a plane taking off. A heavy piece of old furniture or the flying buttresses of a cathedral. Keep in mind that weight doesn’t even have to be physical: emotions and memories can weigh on us (or lift our spirits) at least as much as real objects.

I look forward to your photos this week.

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