article_snippet.sent: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Jonathon Keats figures a picture can also span a thousand years.
article_snippet.sent: If it seems far-fetched, consider that some of Jonathon Keats previous endeavors include selling tracts of real estate in the theoretical extra dimensions of space-time and opening a photosynthetic restaurant that serves gourmet sunlight to plants.
article_snippet.sent: Jonathon Keats has also been involved in choreographing honeybees; copyrighting Jonathon Keats own mind to give Jonathon Keats 'intellectual property' a 70-year post-life extension; and, controversially, joining in a bid to genetically engineer God.
article_snippet.sent: Even at Jonathon Keats quirkiest, Jonathon Keats notes Jonathon Keats always has a serious message to deliver.
article_snippet.sent: Keats hopes that the long-term photograph will make people think about time frames longer than people lives, such as the centuries that it takes for nature such as the Holyoke mountain range (pictured) to transform .
article_snippet.sent: Keats can't say for sure.
article_snippet.sent: and you'll see the image,' Keats says.
article_snippet.sent: For example, if the now heavily forested area were to gradually turn to grasslands, the trees, Keats predicts, will linger on the photograph as ghostly reminders of a prior period, set against the bolder outline of the more recent landscape. '
article_snippet.sent: So what you're getting in a sense is ... a movie of the full period, of the full thousand years, but all compressed into a single frame,' Keats says.
article_snippet.sent: Above, Keats explains Keats project at Amherst College .
article_snippet.sent: Keats hopes such resiliency bodes well for Keats long-term survival.