The way I see the world is that everything is interesting. If you look closely or long enough, anything can be photographed and be fascinating. Looking at the world, one sees moments that hold immense promise for pictures all the time: sometimes you may catch them, but there are other occasions when you nearly hate yourself for not having a camera.
One such moment happened to me when I went back home last winter break. My childhood friend and I went for a walk in my neighborhood late in the afternoon, when the sun casts that magical light: warm and golden. As we were walking, I saw a group of children (about 6 of them) playing soccer in the middle of this dust road near my house. It was perfect: as the game picked up more momentum and the kids got more into it, the dust rose off the ground and enveloped the small area creating a sort of haze around the players.
The sun was hitting at the right angle so that the haze would be completely visible, the kids’ enthusiasm and heartiness would have rendered perfectly; the goal post made of pieces of found bricks and rocks, the slightly deflated ball would have just added to the feel of simplicity of this pick up game in the mountains. It was so beautiful to observe and I’m sure it would look even better had I had my camera by my side.
I regret that I decided not to go out with my camera that day because that pick up game could have been visually very interesting and produced some pretty good pictures. I learned from this afternoon walk was that I should have my camera with me as much as possible so to be able to capture those moments where everything is at the right place at the right time, or seemingly so. Because, after all, we live for these moments.
Thank you for sharing such an evocative memory Keylah. Sometimes these moments take on even more intensity and poignancy because we don't have our cameras--the moment is lost forever and we struggle to fix it in our minds.
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