#19 Photography

People take photographs for a lot of different reasons.

For me, it’s my way of making sure I remember what happens in my life. And so, I take all things, everything, always something but never nothing. I worry that, one day, I will forget that I had ever lived a life and that I cannot remember anything that has ever happened to me. When that happens, my photographs will save me. They will serve as a reminder of my life, so that I may look at them and smile.

And so I take pictures of my food before I eat, interesting shadows on the ground, beautiful puffy white clouds dancing across the sky, my newborn daughter burping, crying, laughing, sleeping.

I don’t like taking photos with people posing in them. I feel it’s fake and doesn’t represent the moment. I’d rather capture a hidden smile, a stifled cry, a stubbed toe or a bleeding heart.

Then I place them all in albums for the world to see. Some people like them, some people don’t. But I’m grateful that my work inspires others to photography, so that others may see the world in the way that they do.

After you read this, I hope you snap away too.