Changes

The Change of the season bring the beauty of the magnolia.

Farrah Braniff shared inspiration at Shutter Sisters today, as she shared her experience with changes in life experiences. She posed the question What have you seen through your lens that has changed your heart?

It made me start thinking. I've definitely experienced a life change in this last year. (...hence the original purpose of me starting this blog.) Marrying my best friend and moving to New York City from my small-town Midwest life was a scary and huge life changing experience. Upon arriving in the city, I felt the inspiration of the city pushing me to see life differently than I had previously. My eyes have looked through a camera since I was a young child capturing my summer visits to Dad's, when he lived in Alaska. But now, I was starting see more, to really look for the moment to capture from behind my camera.

My husband and I will not live here forever, so I began to capture all the moments, just the way they seem to appear to me as I experience and observe. I want to remember what changed me, what inspired me, what I can take with me when I leave and head off into the sunset for my next life changing adventure. (All you mamas with babies out there are giving me a small case of baby-fever as you discuss how your children changed your lives and post beautiful pictures of their sweet faces! Check out some here.)

A year ago, I didn't know what it would be like to live the life I am living now. What would a daily routine be like? How would fill my weekends and breaks with the city at my fingertips? What new experiences would I enjoy? What would I grow to love and someday miss when I move on? How could I expand my life experiences and my thoughts of the world around me? So as I sit here and ponder these questions about my life changes, I am inspired to grasp a hold of my chance to make more life changes, to fully take in the experience we currently have at our fingertips.

So today, I'm setting a few goals for myself, as a photographer and as a member of my Brooklyn community... to be inspired, to grow, to embrace the change in my life, to capture, to share. Thank you Farrah and Shutter Sisters, always inspiring.