Mere Musings

A little video I threw together about our trip to Denver Colorado for Sarah & Reuben's wedding. I didn't take nearly enough video but still had just enough to make this.

(I wrote this in January 2017 but I still felt like it was worth of posting here as I had come across it while going through a google drive account ) In the past I had always associated “photography” as the person that stands behind the camera taking family portraits, that were boring, lifeless and generally annoying to wrangle that many people into a confined space. And that’s what stuck in my mind whenever I thought of photography. I disliked this type of picture taking that even when I had a “nice” DSLR I would leave it at home so that these photographs weren’t expected of me. It wasn’t until recently that I began to form a more robust view of photography. As a film student at a small college, I learned a lot about framing and composition, the importance of lighting and all of these other aspects of film, but it never made the leap to photography until this summer, when I got the chance to go take pictures and video in Nicaragua. I had always considered myself a videographer and