Photography My True Love

Some things you just want to get better and better at. So it is with me every time I pick up a camera. I love photography with all my heart and soul! I just don't understand why I had to develop this love so late in life. My age hinders me now and that makes me want to cry. I'm so excited when I learn anything new in the art of photography. Learning however takes time and when you are my age it takes even more time.  Good grief (sigh), I don't have that much time. If I could have the full realm of say . . . 25 more years to take great pictures, well, that's not enough time to master the art! Mastering any art takes a life time and I got started way too late! I sure hope there are camera's up in heaven.
Last night I couldn't sleep. In the wee hours of the morning, I came up and found a few pictures to edit and play around with. There is something so breath taking about the human soul. When I take pictures like the one above and I zoom in on the eyes, oh (heavy breath) those eyes, I can see right into the human heart, it's an incredible thing. And when I do, I see my Father in Heaven and I see His work! Even in a picture the human spirit is alive and magnificently visible. I think this is why I love photography, because it calls to me from my heavenly home.  It speaks to me of a life long before this one, and when I finish with the editing and the effects of softening and changing the image, I see the ability to soften, enhance, and perfect the image in myself as well. Photography is deeply spiritual! That's why I love it!
Every time I learn and grow in the art of photography I want to go back and take every single picture all over again. I took some pictures of Missy and Baylee a long time ago and I know why I have avoided editing them --- it's because I am disappointed in my work. So many of the images are not focused just right. By the time I had looked through 50 images last night, I was growling and snarling something fierce. I kept trying to find a good one to edit for Missy and the pickins' were slim. I get so frustrated (grrrrr). I did find this sweet shot. The girls are beautiful, the photography . . . um I don't know? I'm a hard critic on myself. But I'm here to tell you one thing . . . I'm going to get better at this thing if it kills me!