Locked Love

Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/500
Av( Aperture Value ) 1.8
Metering Mode Partial Metering
ISO Speed 100
Lens EF50mm f/1.8
Focal Length 50.0 mm

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I am drawn to simple subjects; locks and chains are one such subject I enjoy shooting. It was by no accident that this lock caught my attention. What was intriguing about the lock that lend many questions is the printing; Vitalya + Liza = S.S.8:6-7. Who are Vitalya and Liza? Why this lock on a bridge railing crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis? What does it all mean?

Flashback to Rome, Italy in 2006. Mrs. DL and I were crossing the Tiber River and witnessed a scene of interlocking locks on a chain. We pondered the meaning of these locks without conclusion until I viewed a recent Locks of Love post from Valeria at Verona Daily Photo. Grazie, I now understand this love story of the locks of love back in Roma and now here in Minnesota.

A quick Google search to determine the meaning of S.S.8:6-7 led me to Song of Solomon, Chapter 8 verses 6-7:

6	Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7	Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

To borrow a line from Paul Harvey; Now you know The Rest of the Story