This past Friday morning this butterfly emerged from its cocoon. Its wings still wet and unable to fly I crawled up this stick and I used the sunrise as the backdrop to something special… a new life beginning.
Some would say, ‘it’s just a butterfly… so what’… I see it as much more than JUST a butterfly. There’s a lot more to this butterfly. This is my way of showing my grandson nature and just how pretty it is and just how fragile it can be. I feel if I can show them the small things in nature at an early age they too will learn to respect and look for the beauty in the simple things. Simple things may lead to complex things… who knows what they may do just because I took time to show them the little things in life.
I like to think of myself as an artist and the camera is my brush and nature is my subject. When I watch the sunrise and see more than just the sun breaking over the eastern sky… I know I’m watching something that will never be seen again and I try to but feeling into my work… I want others to feel the warm sun rays of on the foggy morning the way I did when I was shooting the picture.
I love to shoot pictures… there’s no other way to put it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bride, birds, landscape or a bunch of dead flowers… I feel there’s beauty there and I’ve got to show it. I know most may not see what I saw, but that’s what makes it so unique; I’m looking for that one person that can say with all their heart … ‘I like it’. If everyone liked it, that would be good, but a lot to times that’s not what I’m going for.
Maybe someday I’ll hit it big and make name for my work… even then I’m going to keep on doing what I enjoy and do it the way I enjoy it… breaking a few rules here and there keeps the art alive… well to me it’s art to others it may only be a picture… when I think of a ‘picture’ I think of something not planed just a fast reaction of something you see. My sunrises I can’t plan ahead, but once I get there and see what I’ve got to work with I WORK with it. I’m always looking for that one little special thing that will make it stand out…
I just hope when you look at my work, you can see something other than just a picture... I hope you can see the handy work of God in it… I just shoot what He has allow me to see and I need to thank Him more than I do for letting me see the things I do in the way I do.
This is me and what I truly like in life. Like I’ve said before … if I’ve got a camera in my hand, I’m a pretty happy person.
