I'm feeling quite proud, for lack of a better word, of the photo of Dan
with his torch on Wednesday. (30306007). It was posed, though at Dan's
request and his reaction plus those there seems very revealing to me.
Yet, yet, yet I am worried too.
I've been thinking about it quite a lot as well as showing it to team
members and I am starting to feel as though that photo of Dan is how I
see him. That may do him a disservice as it causes me to focus on him
being 'goofy.'
I'm also not really sure what to do with it. What is the point of it? I
think it tells a story but I'm not really sure. If I were link it to
sections dealing with the role of Dan then it would give an image of
Dan. On the other hand, I could use a simple mug shot but why? This is
doing my head in.
Say we look into creating an automatic link that picks up Dan and when
clicked shows a photo or some sort of bio. Well, great, but the photo
is going to become the view of Dan that the reader has. A mugshot at
best, is recognised as some sort of neutral documentary photo but it
tells us nothing. If we use a 'live action' photo then Dan is frozen in
that split second. For me though, this photo of Dan is quintessentially
him. So, say we use this, then we have some more of the author's
'voice' and that has to be recognised. On the other hand, maybe we
should just leave any kind of standard photo out of it - let the reader
imagine - and stick the photos into a gallery area.
I'm going round in circles here. Should try to condense this to some
sort of memo.
From Bruce’s fieldnotes.