Make it a goal each day to bring the camera to places you normally would not. You”ll find opportunities where you thought, “I wish I had a camera…” no longer apply.
Have a great rest of the weekend.
I don’t live too far from the house I grew up in during my elementary school years. Often I drive by to see if it’s for sale. Maybe I’m a little curious but I think mostly I just enjoy reminiscing. Every time I approach the house I slow down to a crawl and I begin to remember simpler times. It’s almost as if I can hear the laughter from the neighborhood kids I played with. I can still feel those wonderful summer nights and hear the sounds of locusts and crickets ushering me off to my dreams. The world seemed so large in front of me and full of endless adventure. It’s such a bizarre mixture of emotions that sweep over me when I pass by that big blue house. When I hit the gas and continue on I snap back to reality and realize this: I’m creating moments like this for my children right now. With all the responsibilities and busyness that comes along with being an adult it’s nice to remember what it was like to be child. There is simply nothing else in this world that helps quiet my soul and remind me of the wonderful innocence of being ‘little’ than having a sleeping child in my arms. I love you Lydia.
Photo credit to Isaac Hillaker. Who says you can’t take a decent photo in Program mode? 😉
The big blue house.
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Recently, I’ve had a desire to go out and meet new people. Which is honestly a little strange for me. Sarah is more the extrovert while I sometimes keep to myself when it comes to people I don’t know all that well. But I’ve had this drive to go out and meet photographers in the Des Moines area. There is a great number of us. At first I didn’t have a good reason other than to socialize and create a good network of friends. But tonight I think I realized the real reason why I’m doing this.
We’ve had the privilege to sit down and talk with some really talented people: Jill Brown of Jill Brown Photography, Tina Wagner of Tina Jean Photography and just recently Laura and Joey from Life Art Photographs – all wonderful people. Each of them genuine and extremely passionate about what they do. Each of us come from different backgrounds but yet have the same desire to create with a camera. It’s inspiring. And I think that’s what is driving me. I pull my inspiration not just from the images I see from other great photographers, but from the people themselves. Seeing that same desire to capture images that are not two dimensional – it’s contagious.
This evening we spoke of Jonathan Canlas who has an extraordinary storytelling ability with his images. I think it is what we all are ultimately striving for. Each engagement, wedding, family event and all that we are asked to do – we want to do it with a passion.
That’s all I have for tonight.
Hope you’ve had a great week so far.
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Listen up! West End Architectural Salvage = Amazing Eyesplosion of Photographic Goodness. Other than it’s odd location (sandwich’d between an adult bookstore, homeless shelter and jail) it is a wonderful location to do photographs! This was our first time there and I don’t feel like we had enough time with all the different floors of goodies.
Meet Karlee and Brock! Both were an absolute pleasure to photograph and were just great in front of the camera. They’ll be getting married this summer at the Temple for Performing Arts. We can not wait to shoot the wedding! You guys were amazing!
Last name will start with this of course 😉
This was actually just the backside of an old clock they had at the store. Great place!
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