Sledding on cobbs hill

Sledding on Cobbs Hill

Sledding on Cobbs Hill

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atty and I decided to try out our new orange toboggan on Cobbs Hill. The weather conditions were perfect for sledding. The temperature was in the teens with about a foot of new snow, a brilliant sunny sky, and no wind.

We rode together down the hill twice, then once each solo, and we were finished. Patty commented that if we were kids, we would stay for hours and come home only when the sun went down, and our clothes were saturated and encrusted with ice balls. She said the reason why we only went down a few times is because we are old. I said I think it’s because we only need to do it a few times to recall all the sensory memories we acquired doing it obsessively for years as children.

It’s the same with hearing the cry of a baby or laughter of a child. A tiny taste is all we need to recall the whole shebang.

Frank Cost Rochester, New York Sunday, January 14, 2018

About the author Frank Cost is the James E. McGhee Professor of Visual Media in the School of Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has taught a wide variety of courses in the field of visual media for more than three decades.

Frank has been photographing professionally since 1975 and has authored both textbooks and experimental photobooks exploring new forms of graphic expression enabled by digital technologies. He can be contacted at frank.cost@rit.edu. To learn more about Frank Cost and RIT, visit the following URL: http://cias.rit.edu/faculty-staff/2

Production note The pictures in this book were selected from a series taken automatically with a Fujifim X-T1 digital camera and 14mm lens on a one-second interval timer.

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