What's In A Word?

Photograph...what does this word mean? What do you see, what do you picture when this word is uttered?

I instantly see black and whites...call me classic, but that's the image that flashes into my mind when I hear this word. I see thousands of black and white rectangle images, laying all over an oak floor that's stained dark and is cool to the touch of my fingers as I reach out and take hold of as many of the images as I can. I can see their finish, matte and not glossy, ancient...some even have the tint that the older photos tend to get as they age...sepia...images of people that I've meet, people whom I never want to forget, places that I've seen, places that I want to go...all this I can see on these photos as I pick them up from their place on the floor. All preserved, all protected, all safe inside this magical paper that records the most important moments...the most important things.

This is what that word means to me.