This is my first blog. So thanks for reading!
In all my life, I have never found anything that I find myself doing more than seeing something and viewing it as a picture. Everything through which your heart sets in the visual art of photography eventually becomes a part of you because of the ability and the power that a lens has.
What is this power? Inspiration, motivation, pleasure, bliss, humility, peace, greatfulness, sensability, and even passion. The ability from which this power is, is to allow us to see things in a perspective outside what our minds can single handedly comprehend and process. Our minds are sometimes to complex to acknowledge that this world has beyond the events and sensations we experience through our constant busy schedule of life. In fact, we are so busy that we don’t see what is really going on in the world around us.
For instance, when it starts to rain, do we see the flowers being watered, and the river filling for our drinking water, life being born, animals quenched, or even the plants inheriting the nutrients that the water brings down to the ground from the clouds and the chemical nutrients washed down from the trees to the ground? NO! Why? Because we are most of the time getting wet, and are rushing to a dry place, or trying to get into the store, or into the house with all the groceries…. etc. I could go on and on. But to the point. Photography slows alllllllll this down to where you can freeze that beauty at an instant. And now with the advances in Technology, we can take a single digital camera, capture it, and post it to where we can go back and look at it. And we notice things everyday that was never there before. Or was it? Now we notice small “minor” details that all together play a role in the life of this planet and hold the beauty in its own reserved place on this planet created by God, MOTHER EARTH.
When you are stressed, mad, upset, happy, … well any mood that you might be in, one picture can change it all by activating a memory through a single still image. This is what I love about the art. God created such a beautiful world for such a pathetic and spoiled race that we as humans are, we can’t get outside our box. Especially Americans.
With what started as just a wanting to get into a class for the hott girls that were in it, in no time at all became a passion in giving me the ability to see beauty and potential in everything around me. For this I am thankful that God indeed is awesome and graceful enough to bless me with that talent and skill I have aquired. Photography and God, …What a great match. We are definitely made in the “IMAGE” of God. So take some time and see what photography can do for you! Don’t take life for granted. Cus you’re not promised how long you will be here. Enjoy the gifts while you’re here!
