A Photographer

Being a photographer to me means capturing things; capturing them in time so that there is a record of it having been - pet hamsters and tortoises, our children in their joyous youth before they are grown and gone, the dogs that have shared our lives, the places we have traveled. Yes, in our "glorious" age of capturing virtually everything right down to our food and drink, I get it, we are now social media oversaturated. I have also learned how vital and of the utmost importance living in the present moment is to our mental health and how we need to turn off all of our electronics and spend as much time in Mother Nature's bosom as we can before it and we are all gone. From a very young age, I remember so many instances of looking around me wanting to "keep" all the special moments that happened in my life, while they were happening. So when I found out what a camera was and what it did, I was hooked. To me, and I have especially found this to be true as I have gotten older and my memory isn't what it used to be, if you don't capture those moments - well, memories fade and then disappear altogether and then it's as if it never was. But with a photograph, you can point to it and say, "See that? I was there, I did that". Eli Hunter 10/20/11 and 5/18/22