Bookworm, I wanted the story behind this image to go back to Bradbury's dystopian vision of a world where reading is outlawed. The story takes place during a time when this law was first put into place, a journalist runs home after hearing about this new law, frantically trying to find places to hide all of his books, stories and journals when he hears a knock at the door. When he realizes it is too late, he takes one photo of his belongings before throwing a match into his kerosene soaked house.
The leather bound book is my personal journal, I unlocked it for this image because I wanted it to show that no matter what, a person's writings and stories are always everlasting. You can't take away memories. My goal with this image was to capture as much detail as possible within the photograph. This was a twenty five second exposure @ F/11 and an ISO of 50.