<p align="center">I figured I would post this here, because I suppose it fits. Let me know what you guys think? I'd love to see some thoughts on this. How you feel about, what emotions you feel when you're capturing images. The prompt was this:</p> <p align="center">"<em>Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?"</em></p> <p align="center">thanks guys!</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">Looking Through the Glass<br> The Milky Way bursting out from a monstrous mountain, fish netting flowing in a spool like a gentle ballerina, a couple preparing to tie the knot. This is the life behind a camera, a place where anyone can capture a moment in time, and appreciate it for what it truly is. Often times, I find that moments that should be appreciated are simply ignored, and abruptly discarded into the irrelevant memories of our past. The life behind a camera, where I can always go when I need rest, where I can always go when I need to ponder things in my life, or when I simply need to capture the world around me. Photography has taught me to live, it has taught me to experience the world around me and notice the little things that so often go ignored. I’ve learned to capture the most significant things in this world, often finding that they are no larger than an ant. I began photography on my own, in the summer of my sophomore year, I watched hour after hour of tutorials, soaking the information in, growing my passion and love for the art of photography. Realizing it wasn’t quite as complicated as one might think. The patience and perseverance that photography requires is amazing. Capturing the light that falls across the face of an individual, positioning yourself to frame the subject. Photography is an ever growing art, where the equipment stays the same, yet your techniques evolve and become so methodical, that you eat, sleep, and breathe the art itself. Framing every subject you see around you in your mind, paying attention to the abstract light in an otherwise bland room. I have begun to embody myself in something I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Photography will continue to teach me to capture, appreciate, and embody myself in the smallest things this world can offer, the most beautiful things this world can offer.</p>