The Most Beautiful Photos Of My Life Occurred Yesterday and I Didn't Have a Camera.

Being a photographer and being without a camera can be absolute torture-or it can be a blessing in disguise.  Yesterday my sister and I went on a drive and it was quite warm out for what it has been recently.  The sun was shining in all the right places.  We had my mom's car-left mine at home to save gas (ha!), which meant that I did not have my camera on me since it was in my car.  In all fairness, we were not supposed to go driving, we were supposed to be looking for jobs, but it was just too nice outside!! Consequently, everywhere I looked yesterday I saw an amazing photograph in front of me.  Of course that type of lighting makes everything beautiful, and it did...but that's the point anyway. At some points I almost felt moved to tears at the beauty in front of us. 

Missed Photograph #1:

We went to a lake and my sister was sitting on a dock, she was wearing mostly black with red shoes and her red fingernails and I could see this pop of red from quite a distance while she was surrounded by water and the last burst of sunshine for the day was hitting her face.  

Missed Photograph #2:

All the meantime I'm walking by this pavement that has insane tire markings that made many a design.  

Missed Photograph #3:

When we had first pulled up Katie got out of the car to make a bouquet and as she did that I sat in the car noticing the side-view mirror's reflection was of the lake behind us, the sun setting gradient sky, and the silhouettes of the leaf barren tree and foothills and the light falling inside of the car was quite soft while Katie stood behind the side-view mirror in front of bushes that were being kissed by the last of the sunlight.  

Missed Photograph #4:

On our way to the lake, there was this guy on his motorcycle next to us.  I could see him in the review mirror perfectly with his oakley style sunglasses wrapped around his eyes.

Missed Photograph #5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12....:

Everywhere I looked yesterday.

Missed Series #1:

Central Pike, Mt. Juliet, TN. 2009. I want to shoot an entire series down this road. Ending with the end of the road where there is a high school.  There is this exposed rock from part of the foothills and they pained a huge flag on it along with a peace sign and names. 

As much as it hurt not to have a camera on me, I realized that if I did have my camera on me yesterday, I would not have been able to see as much as we did because we simply would never have had the time to get to all the places we did before the sunset and now I know of all the places we went to and can go back to them and take my time discovering the areas with the camera.  It will probably never be quite the same again, but I can at least try and capture the essence of the beauty we saw yesterday.