Literature through the lens Challenge: Suggestions?

[ishoot4him]

Hey everyone!

I'm in charge of a 12 month photo project. The participants must take a passage from a piece of literature and breathe life into it through their photography. They may not skip over a portion of a passage - they just have to do their best to illustrate it somehow in picture form. I am trying to get together pieces of literature that would lend themselves well to this project. For example:

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 "A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted..."

This passage from the Bible gives you multiple images that can be illustrated quite easily yet allows plenty of room for personal creativity. It's these sorts of works of literature that I am looking for.

Does anyone have any literature suggestions?

[BEGM83]

Harvest springs to mind so farm shots
Garden shots
Dead cut flowers

[ishoot4him]

Hey BEGM83,

Thanks for the thought, though I was actually referring to literature suggestions rather than composition/subject suggestions.

[BEGM83]

Oops sorry!

[Preacherman]

How about this? Shakespeares sonnet 18 (I think(

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

[BEGM83]

Quote from Macbeth "Fair is foul and foul is fair"

or have a look here;
Literary Quotations

Figured after my disasterous attempt at helping i'd be vaguely useful

[ishoot4him]

Thank you both! The ideas will definitely be useful!