012: Reasons for Photographing

I think photographing the everyday is one of the most important things you can become involved in. Taking portraits of family and capturing the small moments creates a beautiful record for our children and children's children but it does so much more than that. It forces us to observe. To become connected and engaged in the events that surround our daily routine - the commute to work, walking the dog, cooking. Mundane and repetitive though these tasks can be, they are all still imbued with the magic of life.

Walking the dog isn't a "have todo task" it's a chance for so much connection and love. In an earlier post I talked about photography as a form of meditation - well here it is. A meditation on our daily lives, on the myriad of small moments that when compiled consitute a life. A reminder that importance lies in our delegation of that fact not in some exterior phenomena. We create the meaning we seek in our lives.