I am .....................

I am a photographer. I am good at it. It has taken me awhile to believe that and trust myself. At one point I was helping a person move. While waiting to get another load I arranged the furniture in one of the rooms in the house. Just for fun. I thought it looked pretty good but did not think too much of it. Shortly after that the people had a professional interior decorator come by and help them arrange the house. She told them that she would not move anything in that room it look good like it was. That scared me. but it was a nice boost. I began more and more to trust my eye.

There is beauty in everything around us. As people we just need to let go and look. Even in the things that are repulsive to some there is beauty. Photographer Sally Mann did a project called "What Remains." She photographed at an FBI center where they research crime scene investigation. As part of the research they leave human bodies laying around to decay. Mann photographed these bodies. They are some beautiful photographs. There is beauty in anything if you look.

I have come to love the world in a way I never thought possible. The rain, the snow, the accident, the fire, the dog, the ant, the mouse, the old house, the new house, all have beuaty in them. The movie

Koyaanisqatsi

is about a world gone a muck but even in this world the beauty is still there.