Participating in a stranger's wedding is weird... it is their day, but you need to be there for your job... spent time with the bride as the wedding was starting, but she was waiting alone... strangely personal.
Today I played with photos, read the paper, went to lunch with T., the wife... we tried for Princeton, Half Moon Bay, but abandoned that due to traffic... instead we went to the 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco, The City.
Home afterward, and the rare afternoon nap... that toasted most of the day...
I continue to try to catch up with photos and posts about the last road trip... This is bothering me... is it so important to document the journey that the documentation overpowers the journey... In a sense this is the question of photos taken vs. those not taken... Even if not documented in photos, I was still there...
Tonights photos are from short hikes into several Utah canyons... along Comb ridge, into Butler Canyon, into Mule Canyon... The town of Bluff is there too... (if you want to find the Bluff site, look for the cemetery... its nearby.
Now late, time for bed, work awaits early tomorrow.
Randy
Randy you've touched on one of my biggest internal debates. Does documenting the journey change (i think it does) the journey? Does it alter the experience for the better or worse? Does "seeing" with your mind on what images you can take keep you from fully experiencing the moment?
ReplyDeleteI've done a few trip in the last couple of years where i broke the habit cold turkey. Didn't take a camera of any sort. It really made a difference.
But looking back at images of past trips revives my memory of the place, events, people, the whole experience.
so I'm at step 1 of my 12 step of experience the journey fully and not thru a camera lens.