"If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph." This quote's author is unknown, yet hundreds of people have found truth in this singular statement. I am one of those people.

    The thing is however, that I photograph every bit of my world. 
My little broken down car, the moon, flowers,leaves, snow, raindrops; busy little bumblebees, shadows and landscapes. Worn out shoes, cozy places, and  handwritten notes on little bits of torn paper. The seemingly insignificant (but significant) parts of my world. 

  
   I've noticed   that the one subject  that I take pictures of most frequently, is people. I don't mean the photos where the shot is  perfectly composed, and the people are  positioned "just right".  I'm not the proudest  of my  posed pictures, They always seem too in-genuine . I like imperfect, messy, pictures. Sometimes they are a little blurry, sometimes they are a lot blurry; Usually they don't turn out how I wanted to capture them. That doesn't matter to me. Though I am a perfectionist in almost everything in my life, I know that life isn't perfect. I like the imperfect photos the best.

  The too-dark photos, the taken too soon Polaroids,and the over exposed-over excited pictures of a moment that you "just wanted to capture".
  I like personality that shines through. I like sparkling eyes, sharp glares, and pools of gray,emerald, and amber sadness. I like the light catching someones face to form  bands of dark shadow across their face, yet catch and hold the sunlight  in their eyes in a way that turns each eye a different hue of color. I love to see a natural habitat, calm and comfort in ones surroundings.I try and understand each person's perspective on everything around them;their world.

     I treasure being able to hold a flimsy, unassuming,  version of a moment of existence. Something I can remember perfectly, Simply by seeing what used to be  a brief piece of my  world.  Because once it's in my hands, physically existing, It is then part of my life that I can keep close to me forever. Another thing I don't want to lose. Another thing to be photographed. It's a never-ending cycle.

   I guess what I am attempting to say, Is that I don't want to lose people; I don't want to lose the ability to see those things in people.

     I want to forever be able to see the love that I have lived, and the things that I have adored.
I wish that we will  all be able to say, at least someday, "Veni,Vidi, Amavi,"- "We came, we saw, we loved."

-Thoughts from a Teenage Girl