Coloring the Wind: Using Photos and Words

Photography uses light to paint the moments of life; poetry uses words. In this gentle but deeply moving book, David Young uses both photography and poetry to create a medium that invites the reader to notice life more fully. The book is filled with colorful words and moving portraits that invite one to contemplate where they lead. Young alerts the reader to many social conditions, combining inspiration and spirit to find connections to God. He attempts to make associations between what we believe inside and what we experience outside, between what we thought we knew and what we really know.

Through this invitation to "color the wind and create new relationships" Young urges living the best dream possible and thinking about the world with passion--a passion that supports the promise of good change to come.

David Young has had more than 150 photos published in various magazines, including five book covers. A photograph of his two day old granddaughter won the best Color Photograph of the Show at the Kentucky State Fair in 1994. Another photo of her won second place for color photographs of children at the 1995 Fair. For five years he did photointerpretation work for the Mission Interpretation and Promotion group of the Presbyterian Church (USA).