Well this is the one. The shot that has hooked me for life into photography. I was 22 years old at the time, sitting in a restaurant on the Island of Maui. I only had a camera at the time because I was on vacation. I really never played with one other than just general pictures (birthdays, holidays, etc.) Getting back to the mainland, I exposed the film and as I sorted through them, this picture just moved me. The beautiful thing about it was, it was for me, my eyes and what I felt when I snapped the photo at the time. I remember sitting at the table and looking out the window and felt I couldn't get the camera quick enough. It wasn't about the sunset vanishing (it was beautiful though) or the tiny little boat that would soon disappear, but it was the silhouettes...the lines and shapes. So I put this in my 30 days of black and whites, since color was not my intention when snapping this photo.
I had the option of editing it, but I love it just the way it is. Sometimes we just "see" photos, but have you ever "looked" into one? That's the stuff that makes me inhale a little more air than normal, gaze into it as if I was there and lose track for a moment of what I'm doing. I love where I'm at today and the direction I'm headed in photography. I can never say enough good things about the 365 project...yes, I've banged my head on my computer recently on that damn cabin trying to come up with some fix or edit, but that's okay, that was yesterday :)
I read this this morning and made a few correction (as usual for me). Just a quick note - I only had the original copy of this and scanning it didn't get me the quality I was looking for, so I snapped a photo of it in RAW, then cropped a little. I wish I had the negative, but those days are long gone.
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