Picture this : A little girl is playing on a beach on a warm sunny day. Her mother is close by keeping watch full eye over her but she still has those mischievous feelings that the open space of the beach can bring.

Picture this : That same girl in school explaining to her teacher how she bumped her head so hard when she walked into the door she had to go to hospital again You see dad gets irritable when he is drunk and she longs for the feelings the the open space of the beach can bring.

Picture this : A shell shocked soldier overcomes his fear of war and dying and crawls from his bunker dodging a hail of bullets and pulls a dying countryman to safety just because he wears the same uniform as him.

Picture this : A Lonely old man sits at his kitchen table drinking himself to death his only friend is the collection of war medals neatly stored in a glass cabinet. Also neatly stored in his head are the horrors he faces every day with memories he has of killing men who did not have the same uniform as him.

Picture this : A country cottage on a cold winters night but there is a warm fire burning. Two lovers under a bearskin rug naked hold on so tight very much in love and feeling the after glow of lovemaking the happiness that only love and life can bring.

Picture this : A country cottage on a cold winters night but the fire is going out. An elderly couple lie in bed backs to each other.cold almost shivering. A lifetime wasted on uncertainties and mistrust awaiting loneliness that only love and death can bring.

Picture this : A respected business man emerges from his Mercedes dressed in a smart suit, he has worked so hard to get to were he is. He walks toward his plush house warm from the love his family have created.

Picture this : A respected business man emerges from his Mercedes. There is a woman a little younger than he is lying on the pavement a needle protruding from her arm,he has worked so hard to hide his past. You see little sister has the cold his family have created.

Picture this ; Two elderly old friends sit on a shaded park bench. They chat occasionally but just as content with their silence as they are with their conversation and laughter. Both men have much to gain from their friendship.

Picture this : Two old friends sit on a shaded park bench.They chat occasionally but happier in silence. They both have secrets they know about their past they both have ghosts that they would rather not be made visible. Both men have allot to lose from their friendship.

Picture this : As you walk away from these pictures trying to eradicate the ones that have made you feel uncomfortable, turn and take a look at the pictures you have created there is a tiny piece of each of us in each picture for they represent the photo album of the average human being.There is good and bad in all of us it just depends on what you want to see in your pictures.