Wenders response

Since I did not get to read the passages until after I had found my object, I interpreted them slightly differently than if i had read them before. However i had forgotten to take a picture of my rock where i had found it, and thus as I was going back to take a picture, I had the influence of Wenders working in my mind more than i knew at the time. What stood out to me the most in that piece was the idea that a picture contains not only the image of of subject, but also the thought and connotation that the subject puts into the photographer at that exact moment. As I put my rock back where I found it to take the picture, it dawned on me that this rock was no longer just a rock. The fact that I had gone so far out of my way gave a new meaning to it, making it more than just a rock on the shore of Puget Sound. Ruthy told me that the shore was not always there, and that the city of Seattle had broken down the hillside and thrown the debris into the water to make more land in the valley. This rock is now more than just a filler of land, but also now my consciousness. The feeling I had at the exact moment I took the picture is that of conceptualizing how insignificant that rock had been and the new magnitude of what it was in my mind, all because it was in that one spot beneath my feet, showing the lines of quartz that stood out to me.