iVent Vol. II

iVent. Vol. II

Today, i woke up at 6:30 to meet Mr. Bob Crisp for my intercession shadowing. He's a photographer, a CHIEF photographer, and a baller at that. It was very foggy.

On the way to the office, he pulls a quick U-Turn and says i need to shoot something (photographic term for "i need to take a picture of something"). We went onto Jim Pruitt's land (yes the senator) and he found this one spot that amazed me. It was the definition of tranquility to me. We slipped past a fence, found a bridge, coated in dew so it shined along with the sunlight that managed to escape the dense fog. Geese appeared out of no where, and i took the greatest picture in my life. I saw that picture through my lens, i snapped the shot, then i looked up to the beauty i would never be able to describe to any person, even with photographic evidence. I was tired, i was not awake, my medicine hadn't kicked in yet. There was mud everywhere, wet grass tickling my legs all the way up to my kneecaps...and yet for a split second, i seemed to have forgotten all of those factors. I could look at the sun because the fog was pair of sunglasses. The geese didn't run, they were content. The water seemed to have caught the sun light and thrown it at me. It was beautiful and i was happy.

I questioned soon after, why there can't be more things in life such as this tranquil setting that seemed to hand its beauty to me on a silver platter. I wondered why God can make things so beautiful, but He seems to throw them around every "now and then". For the rest of the day, throughout my photographic adventures with Mr. Bob that i took, i thought about that one question. Why does God hide these beautiful things from us?

After a days worth of thinking, i think i have come to a conclusion. I believe God hides such amazing factors from us and saves them for that special "every once in a blue moon" moment so we WILL question that. I think He wanted me to not question why that was so beautiful, but question why He doesn't show me that more often. After coming to that conclusion, i've also created a theory. Maybe, these settings and wonders are always right in front of us, but God only opens our eyes when He knows we will give credit back to Him for the beauty.

My picture is a trophy to me now.