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Caruso English 1101 26 September 2011 The chosen text is an authentic photograph of the changing and falling autumn leaves at the Hendersonville Country Club in 2008. This photograph is important because it is something in which most have experienced the act of, what it represents, and what memories it invokes in ones mind. Living in a city with four seasons will show more than just a temperature change from cold to warm and warm to cool, it has influenced changes in habits such as a fall season

resolution. The purpose of the text chosen is by Jeff Miller; it is to inspire change and to, oddly enough, make you hungry since it was placed in a bistros dining room. The photograph, which is for sale, was first displayed in the Square One Bistro in January 2009. The patrons who admired it were turned off quickly by the price. This photograph is for sale at a whopping five hundred dollars! Most of us hoped though, that no one person rich enough would ever walk in the restaurant to purchase the photograph so that customers and employees could continue daydreaming while looking at it. Jeff Miller is the photographer of this particular photograph. Miller captures the alluring colors the trees produce in the fall in Hendersonville, NC wonderfully. Most people have experienced the mind-blowing colors the trees turn in the fall but often have never fully appreciated this remarkable sight until the leaves have fallen and/or died or perhaps have moved to a city with only two seasons. This photograph or text brings back a flush of memories from high school football games; the crisp, bittersweet smell of the school year starting back up again and the arrival of silly, fall inspired decorations.

Ciampi The sounds of the leaves crunching under foot as Hendersonville dog owners walk their

dogs around the neighborhood is a brief background noise one hears while admiring this print in Square One Bistro. This photograph has simple hues of orange, green and yellow. For a photograph to have such a small palette consisting of three colors and still be this powerful is very rare; this is why Jeff Miller is so talented at what he does. Having three colors represent something so strong and attractive is a very difficult thing to achieve. Yellow is a primary color and green and orange are secondary colors made when red and yellow are mixed to make orange and yellow and blue mixed to make green. These colors all reside in the yellow to blue color wheel. This color choice often makes an exciting blend as it is in this photograph. Jeff Millers nature collections purpose, specifically the picture of autumn, may be to peak the customers appetite. This could explain why this photograph is displayed in the front of a restaurant and is so popular with customers. After researching, an online source explains, A variety of colors can trigger hunger. The most influential colors in terms of food are: red, orange, yellow and green (Williams). Coincidence? One might wonder after learning this that this research has been used in the restaurant industry for decades and that possibly the owner of the restaurant asked for a photo with these colors to be displayed at the Square One Bistros entrance. The hungrier the customers are, the more money the owner of the restaurant makes in profit. Fall is a welcoming time of year in Western North Carolina and this image depicts it perfectly. The photograph represents so much for so many people. Change is an important theme in this photograph that is undoubtedly picked up when one is thinking about the concepts of the photograph.

Ciampi Despite Jeff Millers intentions for the photograph, one might take back the idea of change in all aspects of life; politically, socially, and economically for Americans during the time this picture was taken. With our country in economic decline in 2008, when this photo was taken, he might have thought of taking this photo of fall and change because of the newly elected presidents platform of change in America. The most obvious change has been that George Bush is no longer the president. This very change in American leadership has increased

Americans hope in the transformation of laws and the economy. As one peers at the painting one initially thinks of change in their world, their lives and likewise change in others. There has been a massive change in social class and race. President Obama, an African American, had just recently been elected to be one of the greatest and one of the most influential men in the free world with massive responsibilities. This in itself shows the greatest amount of change the United States of America has collectively initiated in decades. This text can be easily represented in many ways but Jeff Miller chose photography. Most people who view this image think photography is a wonderful way to represent this purpose. There are obviously many other images and different genres to represent change with such as paintings, poems, and songs to name a few. Jeff Miller is a photographer and obviously does that best because he chose that for his career path. Photography as a genre for the idea of change is rare and usually is represented in poems. A quote from an Ethan Allen poem:

A change of schools, begin again/ A change of age, a change of space/ A change of morals, A change of rules/ A change of sails, blowing you into the unknown. (Allen, 9-12)

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This poem represents the transformation of humans, money, rules, and friends, (etc.) Ethan Allen does an excellent job of putting forth an action and giving many examples of the action; thus being change. This poem could actually be shown under the photograph taken by Jeff Miller to further embody what Miller was trying to convey to the viewer about fall. Millers photograph is very similar to Ethan Allens poem, changes, specifically in the phrase about changing of schools, which we all know, usually takes place in the early fall. Change and fall are synonyms, as they have so much in common. The audience of this particular photograph changes from day to day. One day, in Square One Bistro, during the Fall Apple Festival, thousands of men and women might glance at the print and recognize it as a piece of art capturing that time of the year in Hendersonville, NC. Other days, the restaurant may have a slow day with snow or rain with maybe thirty senior citizens glancing at the photograph reminiscing on times when they would scramble through the leaves on a chilly fall afternoon with their grandchildren. Perhaps Jeff Miller was hoping to capture a group of affluent senior citizens looking to spend money, not only to gain profit but to also help the elderly recollect on the past. The choice of location, inside the Square One Bistro, located at the center of historic Hendersonville, is a perfect venue. In summary, Jeff Millers photograph has proven effective in two purposes: to inspire change in those viewing the photograph and pleasing the restaurant owner by influencing his customers to think they are hungrier then they were before they saw the photograph. The audience of Jeff Millers photograph is a widely varied group of interested and hungry spectators. Some look at the photograph and feel nothing and others become overwhelmed with feelings, whether that feeling is hunger; recollection or urge to change is dependent upon the viewers.

Ciampi Although, some purposes may be overlooked by many, and some people might write off the image as a mere landscape, those who dig deep, end up finding the real meanings and purposes in life. After all, every object, action, person, mishap and sentence has a purpose.

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Ethan Allen

A change in time, a change in place a change of jobs, a change of pace Change your style or change your friends Change your path and change the end Chance for a 20, change for a 10 Change for the bus, 'Change please, friend' a change of homes, a change of kin a change of friends you never win a change of schools, begin again a change of age, a change of space a change of morals, a change of rules a change of sails, blowing you into the unknown

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Ciampi Works Cited

Miller, Jeff. "Changes." 2008. Photography. Hendersonville Country Club, Hendersonville, NC.

Your Body's Relationship with Food: What Triggers Hunger? Associatedcontent.com. Yona Williams, Web. August 7, 2006