A Picture is Worth...

PhotoMom and her sister challenged each other last month to take photographs every day in the month of September and then post the best photo each day so they could take a gander and maybe critique the photo, in the hopes of honing their gift. "A photo a day in September". A grand idea...and I am stealing it. :~) Except that it is now 7 days into October, I will have to begin today and end...well, I guess I don't really have to end it, do I??

It does seem that everyone and their brother is taking pictures these days. Oh, I don't mean a snapshot...I mean photographs. Finding the beauty in every day life...rather haphazardly clicking the button and finding incredibly beautiful photographs by chance. I LOVE that!

My father (yes, the one I NEVER talk about) was a photographer. Probably one of the maybe THREE things he ever did that was good in his life. Anyway...he was really good at it. I remember when I was a little girl, he taught a 4-H class (remember 4-H club??) on photography and I was enthralled by all of it. The camera, the film, the Polaroid picture...you could see the picture in MINUTES after taking it! Funny ha-ha.

It was more than that. It was the image. What you saw through the view-finder...the lens...you "captured" it forever. And for real. "The camera doesn't lie". Amen to that. It sees the reality of life. The rarity. The imperfections. The raw beauty. And it doesn't matter if it's black and white or color...it's there. All of it.

So, maybe I will be walking around with a camera around my neck for the next month or so. Photomam took lots of pics of Z-man and Flower...I think I will be out there in the world, capturing nature.

Here are a couple I took just this morning...at 6:45 a.m. It sure was beautiful to the naked eye...and this is one of those times when "a picture just couldn't do it justice". I guess that's the whole purpose of the excersise...to hone the gift. If it is a gift...


Sunrise one and two: