A photo album is a magic carpet ride into the realm of memory. Like leaves of October tinted with the auburn and golden hues of autumn, snapshots are colored with the rich pastels of previous events. Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins has written of his feelings about snapshots in his book, Human Options,

A man (woman) comes to know himself through the pictures he takes ... in ... reviewing the hundreds of pictures I have taken ... in many parts of the world ... I learn ... the camera is more than a box that records an external situation ... it is also turned inwards.1

David had a visual mind. As a shepherd he was alert to the changing seasons affecting the sheep he cared for with love. His eyes saw the green pastures and the dark valleys. As a warrior he had learned to observe the "l…