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April 2009 
Beautiful View
Posted on Mar 13th, 2007
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Cre8beauty
Cre8beauty
My little sister is stunning. (Incase you are blind)
Today a 3 year old idea came to fruition. My head and journals are filled with ideas I haven't yet created. The photo above is part of the idea. I wish I knew more about photography. All of my "good" photos are not because of any knowledge that i have. mostly, any great shots are because i am surrounded by beauty. the kind that takes your breath away. the kind where you lose the urge to breathe for a few minutes, because you take in beauty before the breath.
so maybe it's not really that i create any beauty at all. maybe i just capture it. or maybe i'm lucky enough to catch glimpses and hold them inside my lungs for a little while. i will say this: the air is dry enough to taste in the desert, and it tastes like longing. mountain air is sweetest, and my sister's laughter and silly idiosyncrasies are ambrosia for the soul.
i have great lung capacity. so i've been told. so whatever i take in and hold, i vow to share. and still, i have wants just for me. things i hold---maybe a little selfishly...
my secret desire: the trick i still haven't figured out is how to turn myself into the kind of beauty i see. how to make myself that stunning. sometimes i'm close on the inside. at times i can hold the silence of the desert. be as strong as a mountain. but only for a moment. the kind of moments that memories of made of, the kind where time doesn't exist. i seek to create this.
and to share it. and maybe. just maybe if i can prolong the strength and silence, i won't need to be that gorgeous. because my intentions will catch the attention of everyone just as much as my sister's beauty.
in the mean time. holy wow! take a look at the world through my eyes. i am beyond lucky.
Today a 3 year old idea came to fruition. My head and journals are filled with ideas I haven't yet created. The photo above is part of the idea. I wish I knew more about photography. All of my "good" photos are not because of any knowledge that i have. mostly, any great shots are because i am surrounded by beauty. the kind that takes your breath away. the kind where you lose the urge to breathe for a few minutes, because you take in beauty before the breath.
so maybe it's not really that i create any beauty at all. maybe i just capture it. or maybe i'm lucky enough to catch glimpses and hold them inside my lungs for a little while. i will say this: the air is dry enough to taste in the desert, and it tastes like longing. mountain air is sweetest, and my sister's laughter and silly idiosyncrasies are ambrosia for the soul.
i have great lung capacity. so i've been told. so whatever i take in and hold, i vow to share. and still, i have wants just for me. things i hold---maybe a little selfishly...
my secret desire: the trick i still haven't figured out is how to turn myself into the kind of beauty i see. how to make myself that stunning. sometimes i'm close on the inside. at times i can hold the silence of the desert. be as strong as a mountain. but only for a moment. the kind of moments that memories of made of, the kind where time doesn't exist. i seek to create this.
and to share it. and maybe. just maybe if i can prolong the strength and silence, i won't need to be that gorgeous. because my intentions will catch the attention of everyone just as much as my sister's beauty.
in the mean time. holy wow! take a look at the world through my eyes. i am beyond lucky.
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I think the trick isn't a trick.
I think the un-trick is to see yourself with your own eyes. With the holy wow! eyes.
a simple rule of photography….watch what's growing out of the head. don't center your subjects….and reject rules. create your own stuff. personally I would have had your lovely sister more towards the left. or right? peace, maze
to the right would have been better. but we were battling traffic as arches was crowded that day…..maybe if we ever decide to do it again. thanks for the tip.
First, I agree with you, your sister is striking. The rules Maze mentions are true but, there are times when rules should be broken. Placing your sister dead center forces the viewer to look at her first; the main point of the photo.
I love taking landscape photos and for me also there are times when I am stopped by the beuaty before me and I'm left wondering, “How can I take just a slice of this granduer before me and do it justice?!” Then I breathe….