A spark of enlightenment

As a very busy college student with a part time retail job, I have been on autopilot lately. I chose to go to school for photography because of my infinitely deep love for the medium, yet it has been weeks since I had the inspiration to trek out into the world and just shoot.

Yesterday, it hit me. I have been so stressed out with school and work that it seems I had forgotten what drove me to do this in the first. place. I told my managers at work to stop giving me as many shifts as they are. Then I went out and took in the world around me.

The St. John River was as smooth as glass, the air was cool and damp, the fall leaves stuck to the bottom of my sneakers as I crouched down by the river to get that shot that I wanted.

To the outsider, it may seem that we photographers live behind a lens. I would say it's that lens that gives us this huge drive to keep on going to get to the perfect spot, on the perfect day, to get that photograph we have been longing to capture.