Bring That Camera Outside, and See What Can Happen!

By Georgia Woodward

Do you enjoy taking pictures? Do you long for more time to get outside and enjoy nature? Are you a priority in your life? Can you imagine including one hour each week to do something as self-indulgent as making an appointment with nature? It involves stepping out of your day to day routine, and experiencing living in the moment. Pick a season, bring a camera, and focus on one aspect of nature that you find interesting, exciting or peaks your imagination. I take myself to the beach on a regular basis. Why? No matter what the season, the ocean offers a timeless display of simplicity, and movement at it's best. The rhythm of the waves lapping at the shore; the tides moving in and out make a beautiful spectacle of themselves in every season.

In the winter, the ocean is moved and kicked up by the wind, and currents. There are white caps on the tips of the waves, and the sand is pristine and hardly touched by human encounters. Fragments of shells, and driftwood arrange themselves in no particular display around the shoreline.

Get out of your car, get out of your routine, and by all means get out of the every day. Push yourself into the beauty, and single momentary experience of nature.

It could be a walk in the woods, or a stroll on the beach. It could be a walk around your city block. There you might find a bit of a tree in a golden striation of change; peaking through the concrete trying to be noticed, waiting for you to come and snap that once in a lifetime photo. Every moment of every day invites us to switch up our routine, and walk into a different possibility. There is a handiwork of color and creation just outside our doorsteps. It could be only a short drive away. Even man-made creations co-mingled with nature offers something striking for us to see. The silhouette of a bridge casting it's structure by linking one shore to another. By zooming in on the specific image, whether it be the sun setting, or the contrast of the sky. It can be a truly amazing sight. It could be a butterfly alighting on a flower, or a woodpecker gracing your bird feeder in your own backyard. You might be the one person lucky enough to capture that image, at just the right hour, of a just the right day.

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