moments

"Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect."

                                                                          -- John Ruskin

"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention."

                                                                             -- Greg Anderson

over a month with no posting...just seems every time i intend to do it, i either get distracted, run out of time or am simply, regrettably, too lazy....pretty lame...i think the weather has had me in a funk - too many chilly grey days with not enough warmth and light mixed in to keep a forward momentum going...but, those days when it has been nice have felt so good - like the friday night a few weeks ago when i actually got to shoot sports not in the cold or rain or both - beautiful light, beautiful sundown....and interspersed have been some moments of feature hunting and even a couple still life pix...so, from what i could dig up that i have sized and intended to post for weeks now are some of those frames....i'm hoping/intending that when spring REALLY arrives, it will bring me a personal renewal as well, and everything in me that has been lying a little dormant below the surface and feels like it won't ever come out (and on the worst days makes me feel like it might not even really be in there), will finally break through and show itself....

on the way driving back from the game, i came up to this stoplight and noticed these two coming up to the crosswalk - grabbed my camera off the seat, quickly changed the exposure and managed to get this frame just as they passed in front of me....

since i had the camera out, i just thought i'd keep shooting as i headed back to the paper - so here is downtown Monroe at sundown...gotta love shooting and driving at the same time...now if only i'd been smoking, drinking coffee and shifting gears, i'd be the ultimate multi-tasker, and/or currently recovering from some traffic-related injuries....more soon!!