Welcome!
Spitfire Coffee in New Orleans, LA. 2018
Welcome to my photography blog!
I love capturing moments and telling stories through snapshots.
There really are 1000 words in a picture...
The artistic process is something I wasn't always sure coursed through my veins. It didn't occur to me that everyone doesn't see photography shots the way I do until I was on a school trip in Washington DC with my middle school. I brought my camera, of course, and took tons of photos. Occasionally I had someone else take pictures with my camera with me in the shot. As this was back in the '90s I couldn't actually see the photos until they were printed from the film a week later. When I saw the printed pictures (I'm sure I printed doubles because that's what you did back then!) I loved my shots but then was sometimes puzzled when the pictures with me in them were a bit wonky or unbalanced. They seemed static. My photos seemed somehow more fluid. Now, don't get me wrong here. I am not trying to dis other people's photography skills! I know photographers who are way, way more talented than me! I am trying to say that I thought everyone saw photos the way I did. And at that moment I started to understand that everyone did not see things the same way. It was a bit of an awakening that I've seen continue on and off throughout my life.
I've always seen and wanted to capture beauty around me and my knack for photography is not new. Growing up seeing photos my dad had taken and quietly absorbing his passion for photography lead me on my path of photography love. I think I always knew the artistic process was there inside of me somehow. But my insecurities in my youth just weren't convinced. As an adult however, the joy and inexpiable zen I find in art (photography and sewing blankets in particular) is a very solid part of who I am.
When deciding what to call my blog I thought of a few of my favorite things - photography, coffee, jars, enjoying coffee in jars with my husband :), (my cat, of course, but I couldn't figure out a way to get her name in my blog...)
So I thought I could call it "Story In A Shot (as in shot of espresso)" but that sounded too gun-related and was just not my style. I thought I could call it "Story In A Snap" but that sounded too cheap. I just couldn't cheapen the passion of art. So I settled with "Story In A Snapshot". It still implies a little bit of quickness - snapshot, seems like a quick decision, but I am okay with that. Sometimes the quickest of decisions to take a photo results in those one-in-a-million shots. There's that word, shot. Shot of espresso. "Did you get the shot?" photographers often ask. The story part of the title of my blog is important to me because I see a story in every photo. It can be a quick story, it can be an ongoing story, it can be a shared story, it can be a story we'll never really know. Whatever it is, there's always a story in a snapshot.
with love,
SR
