Adventures

Pictures hold such amazing stories. I spent some time today looking through some of the things I've done over the past year, and it baffles me how blessed I've been. It is the condition of the human mind to remember the bad and forget the good, but pictures are different. Pictures retain joy and feeling, a reminder of times spent laughing with friends.

It has been my great privileged to be friends with some amazing photographers, each of whom have chronicled different parts of my life. The most influential of them would have to be my friend Carolyn. There is a joy attached to her pictures, not just from the memories she captures, but also from the act of capturing them. She is rarely without her camera, snapping away seemingly endlessly at this and that, little things of no apparent importance. But when I see these pictures, weeks, months, or years later, I am always reminded of the adventures we've had. It is surprising how much the little nothings she has captured can mean to me. A slightly blurry picture, filled with little quirks of facial expressions: a little slice of real life that mean more to me than an artistic shot.

Carolyn has the rare gift of being about to capture real life. Yes, it might not technically be a "good" picture, and yes, most people wouldn't think much of it, but to those that were there, that experienced that bit of life together, there are few things more valuable. I have been blessed by her passion for pictures, and I look forward to the up and coming adventures that we will see. When you're friends with Carolyn, there is always an adventure to be found.