“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.”
-Saint Augustine
The third challenge for the 52 Frames project was to create an image for the theme Wabi Sabi.
The first thing I did was do some research on the term Wabi Sabi. My mother, an artist, let me
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”
-Paul Klee
My challenge for week two of the year was
“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”
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I have spent much of my free time in the past ten years traveling in order to photograph. Life events have me staying closer to home. This has led me to thinking of ways to continue to explore my passion of photography in different ways.
One of the things I decided to delve into
“Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.”
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For several years, I have taken time at the end of the year to assemble a group of favorite images I created throughout that year. This year, I not only chose images, but I took time to think about
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
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I was never much of a morning person before I became a photographer. Early on, I learned that in landscape photography, early morning light and late afternoon light are often
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
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So many times I feel the need to drive for hours to get to a perfect location for making photographs. Saturday I took a look closer to home for fall images.
I went to a spot in Charlotte
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
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Photography has been such an incredible gift! It has allowed me to interact and appreciate the world in an entirely different way. Photography has
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
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When searching for a quote for this blog post, I came across the one above. I loved that it included the word persistence. Persistence is a word that I would use to describe my
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The fall colors in the North Carolina mountains are peak in many places right now. When the fall color is at peak
