Photography: A Lovely Power

For a reason I'd rather not mention, I am extremely stressed today. I was rather depressed and decided on a whim to walk outside and take some pictures...Nothing much; just pictures...I walked outside and I poked my lens into the grass, laid on the cool mossy forest floor, pressed my elbows into the cool soil, and simply did what I do best: create. It was an extremely freeing way to reconnect with not only myself, but also the macroscopic beings in nature around me that I have neglected to explore. I saw some wonderful things sitting there quietly. I saw the most beautiful black and yellow bird. And a chipmunk that poked it's head over top a log right in front of me. Simple things...
I always love taking pictures of dead leaves. There's something lovely about dead leaves that gets to me. I love how they curl inward and dip and twist and spin and twirl like warm caramel before reaching the tip, which curls into a little elf shoe. I may not be very poetic about it, but I cannot truly express how contented and at peace I feel inside. Photography is a lovely thing.

Some wonderful photography quotes from www.quotegarden.com/:

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~Ansel Adams

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

~Ansel Adams

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

~Duane Michals

And my favorite:

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

~Minor White