Together We Can



Strangers form a conga line aboard a Carnival cruise

My daughter is entering this picture in a school art competition. The theme is "Together We Can." She decided to use photography as her medium and chose this picture she took last summer. She doesn't have to explain why she thinks it fits the theme, but I decided to describe why I think it does.

This picture shows a group of strangers forming a conga line aboard a Carnival cruise. It was taken during the middle of the day while these people were simply walking along the deck. There wasn't any music; it wasn't some sort of planned event. They formed a conga line because my nine-year-old daughter asked them to. She was participating in a digital photo scavenger hunt and one of the pictures she needed to get was a group of people in a conga line. So she asked these people to help her. They stopped whatever they were doing and formed a conga line and let her take their picture. There was nothing in it for them. All they were doing was trying to help a little girl with a project.

She couldn't have done it alone. She needed all of them.

"Together We Can" became "Together, they did."