Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

Rescues; The Lives of Heroes

In family snapshots the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.

Our church is putting some seed money into it.

Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)