Photography

     I love photographs. I love taking pictures of people. I love taking pictures of things that interest me. It is a little bit like cheating.
     That one moment in time can be revisited over and over. It is captured. It is not so fleeting.
      I have fabulous photos of my kids, my pets, places I have been and even some amazing photos of fireworks but there is one thing I have never once captured properly.
     I think, "How hard can it really be?" There are photos of this everywhere! As long as there has been color photography, there have been photos of this grand perfection...
     Sunsets. Sunsets are perplexing to me. The perfect time during a sunset only lasts for a few minutes. Too late and it is too dark... Too early and there is too much sun glare...
      Oh... I am sure that I could put together a chart with sunset times and go out every night to see if I needed to adjust my time a bit. Then I could make my subject pose for 20 or so minutes so that I could capture just the right time.....
      I haven't.
      I know professional photographers probably just roll their eyes at this.
      Someday, I will slow down enough to be in the moment at the exact moment I need to be to get the perfect sunset photograph.
      Until then, I shall just enjoy the work of others. I shall also enjoy seeing a beautiful sunset outside, realizing that instead of gazing in wonder, I should run and get the camera...and miss the whole thing.
     I told you it's a little like cheating...