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Things that bring it all back

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BlissC:
Yesterday I was doing some work on my forum, including setting up our discussion topic for the week (it's a medical support forum, but we have a debating area where we debate current issues, partly as a break from endless discussions about how ill everyone's feeling). It's a couple of days early - usually I change the topic on a Saturday or a Sunday, but as I've another site I need to be working on this weekend, I wanted to get all my forum maintenance out of the way so I've got a clear weekend.

This week's topic is knife-crime. It's been a particular issue here in the UK, especially in London with something like 20 young people killed in knife attacks that have hit the news this year already. I was looking around on the stock.xchng photography site for some photos to illustrate the topic with - like here I use the news board on the front page to highlight particular threads, and I wanted some pictures to do a bit of a montage with.

This was what I eventually came up with:


...but while I was searching, alsorts of photos were coming up in the search results that weren't really related to what I wanted at all.

As soon as I saw this one though, it struck a chord, and I imagined Ennis visiting Jack's grave at Lightning Flat. I'd been busy working on the forum all day, and I'd not particularly thought about Brokeback, but after I saw this photo I kept going back to it again and again and the scene where Ennis phones Lureen and then the flashback kept playing over and over in my head...

It's called "When a cowboy dies"....


When a cowboy dies ~ (c) eqphotolog | stock.xchng

Jack, I swear...

Shasta542:
What a great picture -- "When a Cowboy Dies".
Thanks for posting.

optom3:
What a lovely picture, and isn't it odd how BBM keeps cropping up, even when you are not acively looking for it.

BlissC:
I love how it's in silhouette and could be anyone. As soon as I saw it though it just was Ennis.

Even the horse looks sombre and sad. It's a damn near perfect picture.

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