Marching 2010

Once upon a time, I used to live in Paris. There I had the privilege to meet the famous French photographer Robert Doisneau at an exhibit of his work. His most famous photograph, Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, is a good representation of his photography style. I asked him what he saw in a photograph and his answer surprised me. He said: “Je ne vois pas de photo. Je vois des moments!”, or in English: “I do not see photos — I see moments!”

That’s what I see when I look at the ‘Carmel Marching Greyhounds’:  moments of determination and fun, moments of concentration and sharing, of coaching and learning, of listening and playing, of competing and reflecting, or winning and losing — and starting all over again.  Moments of amazing young men and women and their supportive parents and dedicated directors and coaches and staff — all working together to create magical moments that are such a special part of the growing-up years.

And so, my goal is to aim my camera at those moments, to freeze those experiences, and to put them in a little ‘memory box’ called this blog, where you can take them out, look them over, and enjoy them for the first time — or all over again.

Doug Pileri