Capturing life

Light is the most important thing  if you want to get a good photograph. The morning reflexes are sparkling but soft, during the afternoon shadows are more strong, and there is a  moment between summer and autumn when the sun rays are perfect between the leaves, light paint in a greener way  the grass in a such way that make it you look vibrant and flowers shine in all its glory.

If you want to catch an image that makes people stop to look at, you need to be patient. Get that small moment of glory isn't easy. Sometimes mom and I take exploration tours during evenings, that allow us to find the perfect spot, sometimes it's a tree, sometimes a flower. For example, we wait the perfect day during spring to show to the world the magnolias, and during autumn, we hope the lavish effect between color and light for the golds and reds that announce that winter is approaching.

Then sometimes that moment needs a little help, like when we have to scare away birds so that they fly, because mom likes to capture the movement of the bird running away.

But it is not enough to have only an object and click, no, no, no!. Even when it seems that everything is aligned in your favor, you must force settings at the last moment. One step forward, one step back, trying an angle, cover the sun with the branches, leaving the sun as background...  we must play a bit with that moment.

I do like helping mom taking pictures, because you will never find the perfect time twice, even if the next day you come back at the same time or even if you run for the camera and think just going to take a couple of minutes, there is only the moment and if the camera is not ready, If someone moves or if we forgot the camera, it is not going to return, and then we have to wait, patiently, sometimes you know that you won’t have that time ever again, that simple moment that could have been an extraordinary photography.

Once during one of our walks with dad, we saw an owl, but neither of them had their camera. We ran all way to home, they took their cameras, came out flying in the car, but they returned without luck, failed to take that photo that would have them so many comments on Facebook for a while.

Part of my job is that when everything is ready, mom is in position and the camera has the right focus, when mom  has in her head how that pic should look like  and it is only necessary to click, I jumped or walk just a little bit to put me in the perfect place to be the cutest photo bomber. 

Finally spending so much time  finding the perfect moment, it’s worth that people will see that you were there, right?.