Often when I wander outside with my camera, I don’t know what I’m looking for. It’s like going gift shopping for someone without any actual gift ideas – nothing more than “I’ll know it when I find it.” I just know there’s a gift out there somewhere, something that catches my eye and beckons me over. I take lots of photos and when I get back, I rummage through them and jettison the stuff that seemed photo-worthy but upon closer inspection, wasn’t. I have lots of “ooh” moments that later turn into “what was I thinking when I took that one?”
I kept these two. “Ooh” became “Ahh.”
Honestly, there’s nothing terribly special about these photos except how they speak to me. I love the close-up, the narrow focal range, the juxtaposition of colors, the sharpness and precision of the cedar branch contrasted with the amorphous snow, the slow drip of melting ice arrested by colder temperatures, waiting to resume… Everything is so beautiful to me.
I went shopping for a gift, paid nothing, and got everything.
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV
I’ll probably delete this in the morning while out gift shopping with my camera.
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