Some pictures just seem like they take hours to setup for. Maybe even in some cases, they take days. And patience. Plenty of patience.
That’s great, if you have the time, but I don’t. No, I get up in the morning, and go through the same dull, monotonous moves I go through five days a week, so I can go to work in a box and pretend to be somewhere else other than where I really am.
So, to that end, when I have a chance to get out there and really get away and have some fun, I want to be able to take pictures that make it seem like I know what I’m doing. I want pictures that look like I spent hours setting them up, patiently waiting for the sun to move just another few feet across the sky so I can get my lighting just right. I want to look at my pictures, and think, “Did I do that?”.
Well, this is one of them, for me at least.
This picture is one of the reasons that I own a camera. It may seem amatuer to some, but to me, it’s top-notch, A-1 stuff. Having taken this picture, I feel satisfied that the money I spent on my camera was money well spent. I can die, a happy camera owner!
The thing is, this picture was a random picture for me. In a garden full of flowers, and trees and different viney things, a pool of water with lilies in it held my attention for about 2 minutes. Just long enough to look at the vibrant colors on some of the flowers, and stand up on a bench to get a better angle at one of the flowers towards the middle of the pool. I snapped a shot, and then went in search of that ultimate flower to take a picture of. For the record, I never found it.
What you see is what you get. I didn’t do anything to the picture to make it look the way it does. I snapped the photo, and in the process of filtering through my pictures after a long weekend of being away from home, this one caught my eye.