About a year ago, my friend introduced me to "American Beauty" - one of the greatest movies ever made. This is why I do photography:
"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. (Photography's) a poor excuse. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
In the last 18 months, I've taken approximately 14,000-16,000 pictures and kept nearly 2500 of them. I've learned all I can about photography, which included being here for the last 3 weeks. I read every site I can find about photog and I want to keep learning. There's SO MUCH BEAUTY that I feel like I'm going to just burst if I don't keep some of it - to remember.
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