Best Jesus photo and the dreaded group photo
September 21, 2009 in HUMOUR
Have you ever done an image search for Jesus? I did this today following an interesting talk I had with someone about our views of Jesus. Quite frankly I didn’t realise there were so many images of Jesus, especially for a man who roamed the earth when Kodak was more likely the name of a Philistine warrior than a camera company. When I searched earlier today there were a total of 42 million images of Jesus. Needless to say I didn’t have time to look at them all but a number caught my attention.
The question I was asked by my friends was which Jesus do you identify with the most and why?
Most readers would assume I couldn’t go past the ‘Rastafarian Jesus’ with the body similar to mine. They would be correct about the body but incorrect about my choice. Personally I like the ‘Laughing Jesus’ at the bottom and the ‘Normal Jesus’ in the bottom right hand corner. For me they both highlight Jesus’ humanity and realness. Although Jesus was God he was also fully man and therefore experienced all of the emotions that we have to deal with.
What about you. Which image do you most identify with? Feel free to leave a comment.
Following my wee trip around Google images, I was then somehow drawn to another website which has a photo theme. This webpage has content that is both hilarious but also tragicly significant to us all. It is a webpage devoted to the awkward family photo.
I will come out straight away and say I have never been a fan of the family photo. You know the photos that I mean, as we have all been the victim at one time or another. They happen once a year, with relatives you seldom see, and they take an age to organise. Oldies are usually seated, young ones lying on the ground and the middle aged brigade standing. From my experience usually it is the most technically deficient person who ends up controlling the camera and the most artistically challenged that organises the seating positions. Organising the photo can be a task in itself but even once that has happened you still have to work out how to use the delay timer on the camera. This takes three goes as the delay is firstly set to short and the picture gets only a blur of the man entering late from the left. The second time the delay is set too long, usually five minutes, and by that time the kids have run off through boredom. Finally, when the timer is set perfectly there is always one idiot trying to pull an inappropriate face or doing the customary ‘rabbit ears’ behind unsuspecting Uncle Stephen. The website is called AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com and is a gallery of the every weird and wacky photo you could imagine. If you have a spare hour, knock yourself out.
The reason I talk about photos with you is because I want to highlight how dangerous photos can be. Last weekend I went to a ‘Rubix Cube Party’. Yes, you are correct, it was as silly as it sounds and I was forced to go by my wife. The rules of the party are simple. Each person has to take items of clothing relating to the colours of the Rubix Cube. At different points throughout the night you must swap your clothing, trying to get all one colour. I was surprisingly enjoying the evening and almost had the game won at one point by trading my colours for an all white theme. But then some plonker bought out the camera. I tried to hide, but rumour has it somebody looking like me may have been snapped in a white mini skirt with matching white boa. For me the camera wrecked the night.
Finally the camera may wreck my working week as well. If you think your family photo is bad, you have seen nothing my valued reader. This week the school I work in has decided to do a Full School photo. A family photo takes hours, with 20 people and a dog, on a lazy summer’s day. We have 1 hour to do a photo with 850 people, most probably in the pouring rain, with around 100 of the students secretly trying to pull the fingers when the photo is taken. Thankfully my internet search for Jesus images has unearthed a Jesus who actually takes pictures. I say we hire him because it will only be by His help we actually get this photo done.
Fletch said on September 22, 2009
My folks have a laughing Jesus picture on the wall. It’s the one HERE called Christ Risen by the Sea. I’ve seen it quite a few places – in newsletters and the like.
My folks also have a version of the Shroud of Turin picture that changes when you move to the side to an picture worked up from the shroud image and is what Jesus is supposed to have really looked like. It’s supposed to have been worked up using a NASA computer. HERE is a pic I found online of both images – the shroud and the image of Jesus worked up from it.