Photo Session (#1 of the Season)

So, as a way to keep a commitment to myself, I am going to track my photography (and other) adventures in here. I think it might help me stay on track and will help me with getting back my creative energy that I deeply miss. Last night, around 5:15pm, my friend and I visited one of my favorite locations in Loa Angeles. Nestled deep in the Pacific Palisades is a tiny park that overlooks all of PCH, from Santa Monica to Malibu and all that's in between. We were trying to make the sunset, but we missed it and I thought I had missed out on all of that "magical" sunset light. What I found when I got there was much more incredible than what I had been anticipating. It was the first time in almost two years that I had gone out with my camera, with the sole purpose of taking pictures. I instantly found my groove again and had no problem snapping as many photos as my near-frozen, ungloved (cold, rainy spell in LA this week) hands would allow. I was lost in my camera and in myself. I looked around and suddenly everything had a purpose and could be a meaningful photo. I found myself looking through my lens as I did the first time I ever picked up my camera. I let myself fall into a trance of creativity that not even the coldest wind could have brought me out of. Eventually, I did leave, but I have had the same giddy feeling since then. I have it back. And now, I feel unstoppable...