With foggy-breath blowing mornings becoming a reality, we can officially say goodbye to our beautiful Summer.
I am all for the heat and sun but there is something so special about Fall that you can't help but love. The bright colours of the leaves as they float towards the ground, the way a bed of mist looms overtop of the school fields in the mornings, how it almost hurts when you breathe deeply from the sharp of the air. It seems short lived as the mundane of the dark mornings and darker evenings inch toward us...
But for now, I'm taking it in!
I headed to a park where I spent a good part of the evening with my dog Kai and my camera.
We go to this park quite regularly and I drive past it every day on my way home from work. For the past few week coming home, I had I see the way the light would hit all of the dandelions in the field and illuminate them with gold. I had taken so many photos of this in my mind, but none in reality.
So I dragged the dog out of the house (or he dragged me) and we went to play in the park.
I can't think of anything I love more than seeing my dog so happy. It truly makes me smile ear to ear with a side of the "warm and fuzzies".
I wasn't planning on posting any of these photos but I thought, these are really pretty and they make me smile, so maybe somebody else that reads this will smile and think so too!
Enjoy!
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I like that your photos make me remember where I came from and who I truly am at heart. It's good to be reminded of my Midwestern upbringing.
ReplyDeleteLiving in Los Angeles, it's easy to get sucked into that vortex of a superficial existence based on whatever facade one might wish to create. So it's refreshing to see photos that reflect what it means to live an open, honest and truthful life.
I hope that makes some kind of relevant sense in regards to your photography... I over analyze but I see & feel raw, natural and sincere emotions throughout your photo collections and to me that is like a breathe of fresh air. Perhaps it's the nostalgia of simpler times back home.
The air always seemed so crisp and the vast forests, grassy hillsides, and trickling creeks seved as my places of solace and refuge. In my mind I can envision all of these picture perfect moments- now even more special to me.
You capture similar moments in photographs- but how awesome is it that any given photo can elicit such a surge of emotions - to be able to produce a photograph that conjures up an emotional response from an individual with no direct connection to that captired moment in time is powerful & art at it's very best.