Project Heartbeat (entry #1)

Quite some time ago, a fellow photographer that I look up to challenged me to ask myself a question -- Why? Why am I a photographer? Why do I do this, love this? -- and to write down my answer. Needless to say, I set that challenge on the back burner. But better late than never, right? 

This evening, I was on my way home from a photo session on the beach. It was about 15 minutes to sunset, and this inner-monologue was going through my head: 

Care-free/La-De-Da Me: "Why aren't you staying to watch the sunset?"

Rushing/Busy Me: "Because I have to get home and upload these photos."

Care-free Me: "But you ADORE the beach. You LOVE sunsets. Pull this car over. Now."

So I did. 

As I stood with my pants rolled up, toes sunk in the sand beneath the water, I beheld something beautiful. Something I haven't taken the time to watch in a while. Something I used to consider (one of) God's personal love letters to me. The sunset. And my heart stood still. 

^ That ^ inspired this: 

Why am I a photographer?

Because I am, and forever want to be, inspired by everything.

Because I long to see the beauty in everything.

Because I have the ability to behold those things that inspire me, capture them, and keep them forever. 

Because I have the super-power to make time stand still with the open&close of a shutter. 

Because life is short. fleeting. fading away.... and I don't want to miss a single moment of it.

Because it is what I was created to do. to be. 

And ^that^ inspired this: 

Project Heartbeat

I vow to stop whenever an opportunity for my heart to stand still arises. 

to never be too busy to feel inspired.

to capture that moment.

to share it with you :)

This is the first of many posts to come.

"You are beautiful, my sweet, sweet song.

You are beautiful, my sweet, sweet song. 

I will sing again."