Minutes for Men

I used to visit the Bonfire Memorial all of the time when I was in college. There was just always something about it that drew me there...maybe it was because it was quiet. I liked to go out there and think while I paced around in the gravel. Others would sit. On late summer evenings robins would fly in from the nearby trees and peck around the soft grass in the center. Toads would come too. Maybe we were all there for our own reasons. To pay our respects, watch the sunset, find a meal, think...
But never once in my time as a student of Texas A&M did I think to photograph the Memorial; to capture in one frame the environment that brought both man and animal together in silence. I must have taken a hundred photos of the rowdy and loud Kyle Field; students cheering, stadium thundering. But not one of the Bonfire Memorial. It's just a different tradition I suppose. No bright lights, no pump-up music, no adrenaline. But a mark of Aggie Tradition none-the-less. And so last night I wanted to create a photo that showed the Spirit of Texas A&M University a little differently.
This 615 second (~10 min.) exposure of the Bonfire Memorial was taken just after dusk, and required me to sit still in silence for the entirety of the shot. I know that may not sound like much, but I urge you to give it a try. Go commemorate our lost loved ones, read each of their biographies, and give them ten minutes of your silence; you never know what you might think of.
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