dim the corners
I took this during the first snow storm of the year. I had been busy all day and didn't get a chance to take photos, but promised myself I would take photos that night, as I've learned that scenes like this are typically fleeting. I'm glad I did, as the majority of the snow had fallen off the trees & branches by the next morning.
In recent years, I've been training myself to take those little extra steps in my art -- for example, if there is a choice between taking a photo and not taking a photo, I choose to take the photo, even if it means bundling up to go out into the snow at night, or running upstairs to get my camera when I see something cool. In the past I often told myself, "oh, I'll just do it tomorrow," and this often lead to disappointment for me; I would forget to take the photo altogether, or, in the case of the natural world, the scene would quickly shift and be lost to time.
I think I've become somewhat obsessed with free will. It's wild to me; you can either choose to do something in the moment, initiating a whole new stream of events...or you can just...not. In the space of a second, I can choose to do something that will bring me peace and joy...or I can choose to stay where I am and be sad and disempowered. I spent a lot of my childhood and teenage years feeling like things were outside my control, but now I have a strong sense of the opposite; I have the power to enact change in my life, every second of every day.
dim the corners
I took this during the first snow storm of the year. I had been busy all day and didn't get a chance to take photos, but promised myself I would take photos that night, as I've learned that scenes like this are typically fleeting. I'm glad I did, as the majority of the snow had fallen off the trees & branches by the next morning.
In recent years, I've been training myself to take those little extra steps in my art -- for example, if there is a choice between taking a photo and not taking a photo, I choose to take the photo, even if it means bundling up to go out into the snow at night, or running upstairs to get my camera when I see something cool. In the past I often told myself, "oh, I'll just do it tomorrow," and this often lead to disappointment for me; I would forget to take the photo altogether, or, in the case of the natural world, the scene would quickly shift and be lost to time.
I think I've become somewhat obsessed with free will. It's wild to me; you can either choose to do something in the moment, initiating a whole new stream of events...or you can just...not. In the space of a second, I can choose to do something that will bring me peace and joy...or I can choose to stay where I am and be sad and disempowered. I spent a lot of my childhood and teenage years feeling like things were outside my control, but now I have a strong sense of the opposite; I have the power to enact change in my life, every second of every day.