I think that one should avoid sentimental or emotional titles
like "The Joy of Springtime" or "Intense" (I've seen portraits
with this kind of title!) or "Youth has its Fling" in most
cases. It's the job of the photograph to convey the emotion.
It's probably unnecessary, more often than not, to use vague
titles like "Rock and Stump" or "Old Castle" that don't add
anything to what is plain from the image.  I usually label
landscapes with the location and the date and portraits with the
name of the subject and the date. Sometimes details in the
landscape do best with a description of what the subject is and
the location, even if the subject seems kind of obvious, because
it would be rhetorically confusing to have a title like "Grand
Canyon, 1995" when the subject was some wildflower next to the
trail.  So if there is to be a title, I think it should be
concrete, enough to provide some geographical or historical
context if there is any to be had, but the rest of the
interpretive work is up to the image and the