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LIGHTING TAKES ME BACK

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Norwell MAAnother one of my favorite things to photograph is light; or should I say, how light hits and illuminates places and things.  Light is something that can take me back; back in my mind; I’ll look at the way the light is in the trees and it will remind me of a very specific memory.  This has happened to me numerous times.  One day a few years ago, the lighting in the trees brought me back to a memory of going to a birthday party as a little girl.  I can picture myself wearing a pretty dress and those ankle socks with lace. I can clearly picture the house where the party was, although I have no idea where it was, or whose home it was.  I can still picture the house and the memory, and it was years ago that I was reminded of it. Another time while traveling in Europe during my college years, I turned a corner and looked in the sky and had this strong feeling that I had been there before; yet it was my first time to Europe.  Perhaps a past life?  Not sure I believe in past lives so maybe the lighting just reminded me of a memory that I couldn’t quite call up.

Talking about memories makes me think of something else I always wonder about.  When I read a novel, I have a picture in my mind of each location or room that is discussed in the book.  I don’t consciously think of these while reading but they just pop into my head and I have to concentrate to figure out exactly what the image is.  Where do these visual concoctions come from?  Sometimes I don’t know where the room/location is, yet it is clearly vivid when I read the book.  Does that happen to anyone else?

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Paths

I’ve always wanted to build my own web site and I recently read “The Happiness Project” and decided to start a blog.  A lot of my friends have suggested to me that I should start a blog as they are always coming to me for advice on restaurants, recipes, apps, books, information on protein powder, name of my acupuncture woman, etc.  I even have one friend (Hi Thyme) who has started giving me information to put in my blog.  So… when I sat down today, I originally planned on writing a blog about my daily life with all sorts of useful information in it where I could direct my friends.  While looking into the WordPress software, I started messing around and thought, why not get my feet wet building a site with all the photographs I have taken over the years.

IMG_0008So here goes…this is not the blog I planned on doing when I woke up this morning.  It is more of a photographic journal of some of my favorite “artistic” photos that I have taken over the years (hence the name ‘Fave Snaps‘).  “Artistic” in the sense that something moved me when I saw the scene and just had to capture it.  I have tons of photos of family and kids attempting to capture a memory, but these are different.

I have taken SO MANY photos over the years but never seem to do anything with them.  Yes they flash on the screen on my computer.  Yes they are all organized digitally on my hard drive.  Yes they are all backed up.  Yes they are all uploaded to an online photo site and shared with interested friends and family.  But can’t think of the last time I printed any photos or updated the photos in the frames in my house.  I used to think I was going to make photo books of each year but this is my year to reduce clutter and honestly I have some photo books and no one looks at them.  I made a photo book of family photos taken in 2006, my first year of going digital, but haven’t compiled any since.  I have probably 20,000 digital photos on my hard drive.  I have a giant Rubbermaid container of photos from childhood to the digital era in my basement, that no one can lift.

Maybe I wonder about the path not taken?

SO…. time to do something with at least a few of these photos and display them here on my new website.  Starting off with some of my favorite shots that I have taken over the years.  Some flowers, some beaches, some cool lighting, some cool structures, some faces, etc; however my absolute favorite thing to photograph are paths and roads.  You’ll see a lot of these.  Maybe I wonder about the path not taken?