Let the photo come to you. This is the message that I have
consistently heard from my photography instructors.
I better understood what this means while on a recent trip sitting in Union Square in San Francisco. If we had not sat in the Square for one hour, we would only have had an incomplete story of what we witnessed.
We wouldn’t have seen a group of women,
relaxed and laughing, watch their friend balance 2 bottles of beer and 3 red
wines as she made her way to them. A daring thing to do dressed all in white.
I better understood what this means while on a recent trip sitting in Union Square in San Francisco. If we had not sat in the Square for one hour, we would only have had an incomplete story of what we witnessed.
When
the band started to warm up and play, it took a good fifteen minutes before an
elderly man, dressed in a pink striped shirt and white pants got up. First he danced with several different
partners and then he continued on his own. Priceless!
And so it is in our daily lives, how often do we stop to capture
the picture of where we are standing in that moment. How often do we wait to let things
develop, before allowing them to be enjoyed? How often do we rush off to the
next thing on our list?
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