Cemetery Reflections
Hey Sherpettes!
It's Tuesday, October 18, 2016. I had a slow morning today! It was a nice morning, the sun was bright and low in a crystal clear sky this morning, the low heavy fog was still sitting if fields and back yards. A very October day. On the drive to drop the kids at school, we passed by Humble Cemetery as the sun was just breaking over the trees casting beautiful shafts of light to reach from the sky into the Cemetery. The sun cast a cadmium reflections on the headstones, grass and fence but the fog appeared to self fluoresce because of the sun's intensity so low in the sky. I reached for my phone to take a picture, knowing it wouldn't capture the moment (I have a iPhone 4.... lol) and allowed the busy traffic of the day to take me away to the school.
I do my best to live without regrets. But I regret not being prepared for that moment the universe gave me. I hold dear to me that image that is caught in my mind's eye, but I want to be able to share what I saw. That is where my joy comes from. So I regret not being able to capture that moment. I blamed my old phone a first, but that was an excuse. Even my old 4 has an amazing camera that could have captured that moment. I wasn't mentally prepared to recognize the moment when it was presented to me. Or maybe simply, I saw the roses, knew it was a rare bloom, but didn't stop to smell it. And I wish I had. I won't miss that opportunity again!
Today I need to move this to a BLOG, clearly.... Thank everyone for all the help on the new site. I love reading the Forums, and getting to know everyone. More to come!
Stunt Hands -=Team Sherpa=-
My mind painted a beautiful picture as you descrided in detail that scene. Today's cameras are good, but still not as good as our eyes.
I understand... and at the same time I am filled with excitement about what you DID capture in just a few words, and that you shared it with us. I realized something exciting when I read it. I realized that I will never ever EVER look at color in the same way again. Just as my dabbling in photography has changed the way I look at light, this Big Art Quest, will give me new eyes once more.
I don't even have to SEE this in a photo - such beautiful words: "The sun cast a cadmium reflections on the headstones, grass and fence but the fog appeared to self fluoresce because of the sun's intensity so low in the sky."
Just when I think my world is so small, BAM, along comes something lilke this class and then this sentence to make me realize no.. no no no... my world is only as small as I accept it to be. Today I will look for colors. The color chart has already changed me - colors in colors. I never really thought about it before. Not like this.