It has been a looong time since a blog post. (Read way too long Harrison what have you been doing all this time?) Well I have been focusing on certain things, because I tend try to do everything, which means I've been letting go.. Let it go.. Let it go... and now I am singing, you probably are too.. you should be.
Ok back to business. You could say I have 4 major talents: Photography, Writing, Drawing, and Cooking. Each of these talents come with very specific lessons that you have to learn or they wouldn't be talents, but the interesting thing is that these lessons are relatable to life and this I will go over so if you would please turn your books to page 54 we can begin.
So this will be a four part series and since we are coming very close to the launch of Bowlerhatphotography I shall start with Photography.
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| Credit: Meg Martino of Meg Meg Martino Photography |
So for the first time in the forever I begin a new blog. If you don't know I started out as a Nature Photographer. I still am and it frames everything else (see what I did there?). Nature photography teaches you many things. Namely patience. Also being at the right place at right time, but it goes much deeper than that. An impatient nature photographer isn't a photographer. As they will miss nearly every shot. Photography takes time. You don't just go take a picture. You have to frame, compose, meter, compensate, edit... EDIT, etc and I can guarantee that many of the amazing shots you've seen by me or any photographer were a product of patience. Yes even in street photography.
I could tell you a lot about patience and life. You could tell you a lot about impatient in life. Impatience equals missed opportunities or taken one's that couldn't even measure up to the other ones and now your life is doing whatever snow does in summer. However, all 4 of the 'talents' if you will deal with patience in some sort of way right? So that isn't specific enough.
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| For reference to get this picture I sat on a log, uncomfortably I might add, for an hour. Then only had about 15 seconds of the bird on the branch. |
So being in the right place at the right time. Sounds like coincidence? Kind of but not really. You see in photography you can't just be in the right place at the right time and get the shot. The is one more factor.. a much more important factor. Having the right equipment. Oh its so obvious now!
If you hiked to the top of a mountain in the early morning to take a picture of a beautiful sunrise and you found it, yet all you bought was a tripod.... Do I need to go any further? I shouldn't because in photography the most important thing besides the photographer is the lens. That is what the photographer uses to view the world and it is that, how you view the world, that is the third part of being in the right place at he right time. No its not that you're you....
You could be on the top of a mountain (what is with me and mountains?), and lets just say you hiked there to see the sunrise... and you made it on time.., and you happen to have your better half with you. Talking to the men here. You are there at the right place at the right time with right person. (Bonus!)... but you dropped your phone and it broke. You are fuming. She is trying to calm you down because its just a phone, but you just aren't having it. You shut her out and lock yourself in this room of anger. Meanwhile she is knocking on the door asking if want build a better life, but no! By the time your anger has subsided its 4pm. You missed the whole thing!
Or your Jonah and God tells you to go to Nineveh. Since He is speaking it is the right place and right time, but your mindset is all jacked up and you decide to get eaten by a whale. Very poor choice. Though in this situation God's grace covered him, but you won't always have second chances.
Its one thing to be a available, its an entirely different thing to be available with tentative plans. All plans are tentative. This has become my new life motto. (Chocolate chip cookie points to those I know my original one without checking facebook).
To get the perfect shot you can't just be in the perfect place at the perfect time you have to have the right view... and also remember to press the trigger. To get that perfect opportunity just being in the right place at the right time isn't enough if your view on said opportunity is wrong. Standing at the door of opportunity and knocking means nothing if you are already expecting to walk away from it. I'm preaching to the choir.
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