Finding space in a noisy world… {Personal ramblings}

16 May 2013

I had a lightbulb moment and I realised since I picked up a camera 20 years ago it is my trusty companion that I ride the ups and downs with.  My camera is there for the good times and the bad and at times literally saved me when life has thrown those massive curve balls and nothing makes sense anymore I have reached for my camera and created a picture.  I have realised that it is my perfect match and I can trust it, get lost with it, grow with it, hide with it, walk with it and just sit with it…  when there are no words and the world seems just full of noise then I take a photo it is that simple.  Last weekend I was tidying and found my huge box of photographs, I realised that it was full of the good times and the bad, there are cliches, the life events, the big things and also the inbetween bits which were maybe uneventful or simply not a milestone and at times damn right tough but ALL those photographs I see as equally beautiful and poetic.  Right now it all feels a bit too much so I reached for my buddy to be carve out some time and space to create, it is much needed even when I feel overwhelmed.  So to me life is made up of  the good the bad and the inbetween bits, and never stop creating.  We are all guilty of getting sucked into the pace of life with pressures of work and everyday stuff which distort our view so it is time to switch off and go and do something less boring instead, my place right now is the countryside so it is here that I find space and it is really simple.  I think there is a change happening and I read an article the other day called ’stop instagramming your perfect life’ so maybe we can all learn from this, instead of editing it purfusely to the glossy version {which let’s face it is not real}, let’s live in the inbetween bits and see what happens. PS I am on a social media holiday it feels good, just off to fields for a walk…