Hi everyone! I originally intended to break these events up into a couple of different posts, but things get busy and life happens and well, you get the idea anyway.
A few months ago my papaw passed away due to lung cancer at his home in South Carolina. We had expected that this was going to happen, I mean literally expected - our bags were packed to leave in advance. As sad as it was, I don't think I'm going to go too much into it...maybe a little, but no one likes a dreary blog and I certainly don't like thinking about that visit too much. We left FL headed for South Carolina, got there, attended the funeral and then mulled around for a few days before my sister in law and I decided we needed to get out of the funk that we were in. So what did we do?
This!
And a little more of this...
And then some of this...
And then a little of that...
Maybe a little more of that...
And some more of this.
Okay, before you get on my case about the quality of these photos, I know they aren't great. This was before I had my Nikon. It was like 300 degrees outside, humid and all I had was my iPhone. Now let's re-evaluate; not so bad right?
To anyone else, these pictures are just mediocre images. To me, they represent something completely different. They represent a sliver of happiness in what was a dark time. They remind me of the time that I remembered how much I loved photography and how important it was to pursue what I loved. It reminded me to start my new beginning. They made me realize that starting over was okay and that I could show my Granny that starting her new beginning was okay too.
Pictures are not just worth 1,000 words. Pictures are memories, emotions, stories and much more. That's the best part about photography, you don't have to do any talking to get to know someone, you only have to look.
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