Today is my 28th birthday and I made it. I didn't die and to celebrate I went to a graveyard. I was down by a creek that winds it's way underneath this graveyard and I was thinking about how beautiful the sun was coming through the trees bathing the hill next to me in orange light. I was trying to capture the beauty I could see with my eyes through the lens in my hand but it just wasn't working. I was getting a little frustrated, not with my camera, but with my head. I can see these things as they are but I want to capture them and keep them as they are instead of just letting them exist in the world for everyone to see and share. I felt a little selfish but I just told myself that it was my birthday and I have just a little right to feel that way.
I left the creek and walked through the graveyard and snap some shots. I came upon a giant angel statue lit awesomely, as angels should, by the sunlight. I snapped a shot and looked at it through the view screen and saw a very different image from the one I shot. The angel looked mad or angry and the light behind it was gone. I took a few more pictures and saw that this didn't change. No matter what way I took the picture the angel wouldn't be lit the way I saw it in person.
As I kept walking and taking more pictures the thought of that angel haunted me. I was thinking to myself that no matter what angle we look at things it never changes. I can look at my past life with a new sense of self worth but it doesn't change the way I used to loath myself. I guess the day of my birth is a good day to sit and think about the way I choose to look at things. I choose to see them in bright lights and color even if the lights are off. Today has been a good birthday and I thank, honestly from my heart, all the people who wished me a happy birthday. You people are rad and I hope you stay part of my life.
I left the creek and walked through the graveyard and snap some shots. I came upon a giant angel statue lit awesomely, as angels should, by the sunlight. I snapped a shot and looked at it through the view screen and saw a very different image from the one I shot. The angel looked mad or angry and the light behind it was gone. I took a few more pictures and saw that this didn't change. No matter what way I took the picture the angel wouldn't be lit the way I saw it in person.
As I kept walking and taking more pictures the thought of that angel haunted me. I was thinking to myself that no matter what angle we look at things it never changes. I can look at my past life with a new sense of self worth but it doesn't change the way I used to loath myself. I guess the day of my birth is a good day to sit and think about the way I choose to look at things. I choose to see them in bright lights and color even if the lights are off. Today has been a good birthday and I thank, honestly from my heart, all the people who wished me a happy birthday. You people are rad and I hope you stay part of my life.