Images are like poetry, poetry that can be created by anyone the moment that they look at it. The words, the feelings, and everything that floods into a person when looking at a picture makes them who they are. It reveals things about their inner thoughts and their beliefs, because how people look at images often describes how people look at life, deep down inside.

I realized that I loved pictures, when I started noticing life.

I was walking around and I just saw things.

I saw the way that light played with a flower, or the leaves on a tree swayed gently. I saw the way that some grass is light green, some dark green, and some curled beautifully while other blades climbed high and straight.

I saw people’s smiles and laughter. I saw the way that people moved, body language became apparent to me. I wanted to capture certain moments, certain seconds, certain moods. I noticed profiles and hair. I noticed the way people would think, and why.

I saw night time like never before, the moon evoked feelings of curiosity and wonder, and it became less of a far away object, and more of a far away meaning. Stars were no longer stars, but light that held it’s own individual beacon of hope to my soul. And rivers and bodies of water became my freedom.

When I started to see things differently, and see through my heart rather than my eyes, the world became much more vivid to me. As if I had been looking at the world in black and white and suddenly the vibrance of color was brought forth to me.

(And oh, color. What would I do without color? I do not know. Color is the single most beautiful thing in this world. And as an aspiring photographer I want to caputre as much color as I deem possible.)

I realized then, that everything around me, started to seem more beautiful. Even the things that most would not see as beautiful, suddenly, I saw the beauty within it.

I also realized that I no longer wanted to just keep it to myself, I had to share it. There was a sense of duty to let other’s see what I was seeing.

An example would be this image taken by my phone camera.

I noticed it while trying to take pictures of little flowers.

(Often times I like to take pictures of weed flowers, or wild flowers growing fresh off the ground. I think that their beauty can be overlooked simply because they are too small or becuase they aren’t the typical flowers, but they are so beautiful)

So anyways I managed to see this precious little butterfly. And seeing it stirred something in me that said “Capture it.” So I snapped a couple pictures of the butterfly hoping to put it on Instagram. (I did.) I felt like, this is so precious, I just had to share it.

So from there I learned about what the world of images meant to me.

What an image also does is capture moments.

Often times I think we take too much pride in a “good” photo. But I’ve learned from experience, the best photos are the ones that take themselves. The ones where the photographer wasn’t planning for a fantastic shot, or thinking of the lighting and every single aspect. But the photographer simply wanted to capture a moment. Or, took a photo that captured a moment. This happens to lots of people. A good example would be in this photo.

Yeah, the photographer was most likely looking to take a picture of the bird. But the moment itself was snaped carefully with many different shots at the birds direction. The photographer could not open up the birds wings and then take the shot. Photography has a lot to do with capturing moments.

Or like in this photo.

I did not intend for my mother to be walking forward with the light circling her and everything looking quite beautiful, but I just wanted to get a shot of the pathway.

Photography that speaks for itself is the most beautiful kind.

So when light and color came together for me, I knew that I had found my joy in the world:

Finding the things that make me happy and capturing these moments, beauty, and sights, so that the world may see them too.

Just recently I got a Nikon D60 and I am so excited to get started on it. Please join me on this new (and exciting) journey in support with tips, help, and just enjoying the frozen moments of life.

Thank you. ☺