Photo for the black and white book club project. The focus this week is thinking about shape, structure, tone, volume, form, and texture.
I'm not trying to be political, but just sharing an anecdote from the life of Abraham Lincoln, since today is his birthday and my photo happens to be a donkey:
Lincoln and a political colleague were discussing how to get a policy across and the colleague suggested labeling the policy in a certain way. They happened to be near a donkey and their dialogue went like this:
'Sir, how many legs does this donkey have?'
'Four, Mr. Lincoln.'
'And how many tails has it?'
'Why, just one, Mr. Lincoln.'
'Tell me, sir, what if we were to call the tail a leg; how many legs would the donkey then have?'
'Five, Mr. Lincoln.'
'No, sir; for you cannot make a tail into a leg by calling it one.'
Saying doesn't make it so.
