I rarely set out to convey some special message with a photograph, but I make an exception here.

For the last 6 months I have been working on a small team to create a prototype software product with new technologies.  It was a prototype, not a “real” product, but still, it was sad to see it come to end and get put on a shelf where it can ripen, or be forgotten entirely, who can say.

As my group was discussing next steps, I scribbled notes.  Later I noticed the comment “priority of these issues has dropped” and it seemed like one of those statements we make that conceals a lot of meaning, although not very well.  Time to close the files on this one, I thought, and move on.

I applied a flame effect, some grunge old-paper, and a film effect, because it’s part of the archive of my life now.