Sometimes a picture leaves us with more questions than answers.

Take this image of Americas smallest Post Office.

Why is it so small? Why is here on the edge of the Florida Everglades? Having been exposed to so many hurricanes, how has it survived? Who uses it?

When I drove past the tinny building I stopped turned around and took a closer look.

I realized the picture I was going to make was less about the documentation of the architecture and more about the feeling it triggered the stories I imagined.

Who was the postmaster? How many people used it. If it wasn’t there how many people would be affected. What kind of relationship did the customers have with the postmaster? When was it built and why? The unanswered questions go on and on.

The saying is “ever picture tells a story.”

I’d propose that some of the more interesting pictures often leave the story unfinished with more questions than answers.

Keeping some mystery in your life.

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