I’ve only been playing around with photography for about a year now. It began when I started messing around with the light on my phones camera.
I am just starting to really understand the frustrations of a photographer. The more I get those really good accidental shots, the more I want to capture the perfect shots, in all their perfection, but on purpose and not just accidentally.
But I am still in my personal learning curve and I am still trying to figure it all out. Sometimes that means missing those really special shots, because your a fumbling idiot that doesn’t really know what you’re doing and good luck wasn’t working with you on that day.
Like this picture right here.
This is one of the best pictures I could get, from one of the finest visual moments I’ve had in my life, but you’d never know it from looking at it.
It was such a beautiful sunset, with some of the most mystical lighting I had ever seen. I wasn’t the only one that thought so either. There was another car pulled over watching it too. Then a car that nearly clipped my truck (because they were too busy watching this sunset instead of the road) as they drove past.
And then there was the lady that lived across the street from where I was shooting. She came out and started offering commentary on what I should be aiming my camera at, just to make sure I was really getting the scene right, because it was just one of those visual moments that you don’t get too often.
Sadly, for a combination of reasons I was not equipped to capture the moment as I would have liked to. It seems that good photography is that same combination of work, experience, persistence, dumb luck and magical moments that life is made up of. I wish this were easier sometimes. But it’s not. I wish every time I put my camera up to my eye I made a perfect picture. But I won’t. But I keep working at it because it’s worth it.
Maybe some day I’ll have a perfect picture to show you, till then, I hope you will find something worth while and some enjoyment in what I do offer while I am figuring out what I’m doing here.
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