It would be the first or the last. I just haven't figured out which. The first one because I had no idea how cool everything would be that was coming down the way, and it was just open, or the last one because hopefully there will be a smile that will come across my face acknowledging how cool it was.

The first time I stepped foot in Iraq. Stepping off the C130 on to the tarmac seeing the heat radiate from the ground and fealling my feet begin to burn through a half inch of rubber. This was a perfect moment to sumerize the next 365 shitty days.

The day that I was able to become one degree away from Kevin Bacon in the Kevin Bacon game.

The day I graduated from high school would be the perfect moment in my life that I’d like to make into a one-second film. It was a culmination of my success in school and all of the adversity I have overcome in my life.

The birth of my son.

As a control freak, most of my life has been spent trying to get control of a given situation or maintain it. Even in situations where my fate was clearly out of my control, like sky diving or riding a roller coaster, I would delude myself into believing that I could somehow defy the laws of physics to maintain control, if I had to. One of the most perfect moments in my life came in my early twenties when I first resigned myself to the reality that there will be times when I'm not in control. On a particularly fast and scary roller coaster, I opted to stop holding on for dear life and just enjoy the ride, putting my fate in the hands of the safety harness. That decision, and the single second in which I let go of the hand rails and threw my open palms into the air was a defining moment in my life, as silly as it may seem. Since then I've found tremendous enjoyment in being out of control.

my entry into the world.

one autumn, seeing the last leaf fall off a tree.

O' Were that the camera were rolling when the Tar Kettle burst into flame engulfing me in a 10 ft' ball of instant sunburn blaze orange translucent flame, one lock of hair singing its way toward my scalp like a fuse, the polyester bandana melted and frozen into a protective helmet for the rest of my hair...all in about 1 second.

laying on the floor of the Yosemite valley, watching meteor showers and falling stars.

If I had to choose a perfect moment from my life to make into a 1 second film, I would choose the moment I put my feet into the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Mind-blowing. I felt like I was walking off the edge of the world.

If I could capture one perfect second of my life on film it would definitely have to be the last hug I ever gave my father before he died.

Hm. Probably the time I reached the crest of a hill on the north Michigan coast, expecting dense forest, and saw this: http://www.kgcphoto.com/Pictured_Rocks_National_Lakeshore/Grand-Sable-Dunes-3.jpg

The moment for me would be the precise moment my brother passed. I don't know if you would consider that perfect but it has had the most profound effect on me. He was only 12 but lived a life of full of pain. That second felt like an hour of the most unimaginable experience that you can never prepare for.

Jessica Barker - 7th grade ;)

If I had to choose one moment from my life to put on film, I would probably use a shot of myself taking a big-air jump on my mountain bike and eating dirt on the landing (it hurt, both times, but it's a pretty good description of who I am).

The moment when I fled from my father’s room in the hospital when he was about to go. That’s one thing I regret the most.

That moment is buried deep within my vaults... But the final day of High School was Close! That final moment where the bell rang!

Back in Massachusetts a few years ago, I was riding down a country road on my motorcycle in early summer. The temperature was perfect, the sun was shining, the mosquitoes hadn't come out yet, and for just a second I didn't give a crap that I was in massive debt and was waiting tables for $2.63 an hour plus tips and had no idea what I was going to do with my life. That was a pretty sweet moment.

Something funny, probably. Laughing with people I love is always a perfect moment.