Photography and Appreciation

Wrote the headline for this topic I wanted to touch on about a week ago, I think.

Basically it was during my thoughts about what photography has done for me - how have I changed through the practice of photography.

Well, as the title might hint, I’ve learned to have more appreciation for my surroundings and occurrences around me. Although I haven’t been practicing as much as I have been last year, the love is still there, and I do take my camera out often - although I am a bit more prudent about what I shoot at now.

Sometimes I feel like photographing something is like chasing a ghost - trying to preserve something that is lost, and I’m merely capturing the fragment of a shadow of that thing. That thought pushes me to think more carefully about composition and my post editing.

Interestingly, I’ve found that looking back at some of my unposted images from last year, there is some more appreciation for them now. They seem to have aged well with time, and I’m glad I decided to take them, and keep them.

There have been some images that I’m quite pleased with producing this year - mostly nature and landscape shots, but I really want to get back into doing some more street. I miss the daring walks I took last year.