the emotion of it all

I have thought of a million reasons NOT to post this picture for the simple fact that you will think it sucks. Crazy talk. I feel the ridculous need to declare "hey sweet blog readers, I know this is out of focus, and I know that its technically not correct, and I know ..yada yada yada" But what do you care..am I right? Its just me trying to let someone know that I am not fooled into thinking that this photo is perfect. But.....it is. It SO is to me. See, Bells, Moses and I have many little adventures when Buddy is off being scholarly. We went to find a poppy field and got lost in a grove of flowers. They took turns running to pick them and bring them to me. Then it started raining, it just got better. Then we started laughing and running to the care with bouquet's of wet wild flowers. Brilliant! We stopped at wendys for a drink and drove home wet with rain. It was glorious.




When I say I am "part" of the 2 peas photography board, I use "part" very loosely. For those that are unfamiliar, at 2 peas (link on my sidebar) there is a general photography board with some very wonderful, insightful, helpful and talented photographers. I have ventured over there a lot in the past, but not as much in the last year and have just started again. I met some of these wonderful girls last month at a get together, it was so fun to meet them and feel a part of a group of friends that share the same passion for photography like I do. Well, tonight I was perusing the message board and came across a topic that dealt with the topic of the emotion of a photograph, versus the technical aspect. To sum it up, the original poster was mentioning how she strives to evoke emotions with every click of the shutter. I'm generalizing her well worded thoughts here, but the gist was she strives to photograph to evoke emotions. I had a lightbulb moment like no other! The way she wrote it just hit the nail on the head for me. I have been striving to figure out my style for almost a year now. I figured if I could just learn the techincal aspect of photography, I would be golden. Well...although I beleive the techinal aspect is vital, and I have forced myself to only shoot in manual, I have learned a great deal, but it could take me months...years to get to where I "techincally" want to be. So it will always be an excuse for me to say "I'll be happy to take your photos, but keep in mind, I'm not a professional photographer, I dont ..(think if a million things I could say that I dont do right and put them here) Its crap that I do that to myself. As I dont feel like I can venture into the world of photography as a business just yet, eventually I would like to. But for now, I am happy with learning, and practicing and stealing moments through my camera lense. What I love about the moments that I capture is that in 20 years, I will look at our photobooks and see what our days consisted of. It wont be filled with a million posed smiling pictures, (although that would be awesome as well) It will show the rawness and the realness of our household on a daily basis, or so I hope. Lighting, exposure, location, poses, crisp focus, these are all things you need to be a great photographer, but if you have these down, yet you dont FEEL anything when looking at the picture..is that great? Could be yes, could be no. My very favorite pictures were taken with a $5.00 disposable camera on the beach 2 years ago. They are so technically lacking, but still my favorite because of the way they make me feel to see them. I dont think I could have taken them any better with my nice camera I have now. (although I may go back and re-process them, they are so fun to play with)









So, my point is this. Kristen is finding a style. If I see something and am touched by the image of it, I try to capture it. It may not be exposed perfectly, heck, it may not even be in focus, but I try, and Im getting better and I am having fun with it. So I seriously doubt that any of you (unless you are professional photographers, even so, you may not care) that a photo is slightly out of focus, or I didnt follow the rule of thirds, if its cute, or funny, you like it. Me too. And I dont want to worry everytime I post a picture on my blog that its not perfect and be too overly critical with myself, because its our life, and life isnt perfect either.






whew! Thats a doosey of a post.