Photography has the potential to invoke happiness, love, compassion, fear and sadness. Like an old song from your past, it has the ability to transcend time and return us to another moment in time that captured an emotion stamped clearly in our mind.

The subject of the photograph has everything to do with the emotion that is generated. A nature scene elicits a feeling of tranquility or peace. When the subject of the photograph is place, we are provided with memories of a prior visit or a well needed vacation. But when the photograph features a family member, friend or favorite pet then the emotion is often love.

My wife does not quite understand me and my love of photography and my "photo friends". I don't blame her because to me it is something that can't be explained - it has to be experienced. Why would you want to get up at 4 AM to go out and capture a sunrise? Or run around in DC at night chasing shadows? Or drive hundreds of miles to get stuck in the snow?

There is an unexplainable bond between time and the moment we capture on film and the faces and places we capture within them. I hope it all becomes clear to me one day - but for now I happy to just enjoy the friendships that I am making along the way and the incredible synergy that photography has with time and peace and happiness, the sum of which is love.

Cheers

Not sure why the update to my blog code broke my gallery - but until I figure it out - here are the pics