Life Lately: In Photos
(Alberta: Canola in bright, sunshine-filled bloom)
We are a culture surrounded by and immersed in images and photos everywhere we look. Advertisements, magazines and social media: a constant influx of images. Everyone is a photographer, and each one is documenting the world they see around them, the way they see it. I love how these little snapshots are being captured and catalogued. They are memories of a moment in time.
I have always been a person who takes photos daily. I used to carry around my little point and shoot film camera, always hoping for that special photograph I knew was waiting for me. A few years ago, I even challenged myself to a “Photo a Day” challenge: sometimes taking photos of the beautiful, sometimes of the mundane. Today, I don’t always carry my real camera with me, but I have one in my phone (as many of us do) and so I always have it ready to capture an experience, or something interesting. Do the photos I take need to be perfect and professional? Do I need to have a “purpose” for the photo? Do I have to share them on my blog or on Instagram? No. Sometimes it’s just nice to look back and think- “Oh yes, remember that time?” Or, “When did such and such happen”, and you have a picture to refresh your memory. Sometimes the photo serves no purpose, but to be there and bring a smile to your face. And really that is all they need to be. Snapshots; offering a glimpse into one little moment that was, no matter how fleeting it may have been.
So, here are some photos, taken over the last month or so. Not related to anything, or related to each other, but I like them nonetheless. Do you take “purposeless” photos too?
berry picking, my Grandma’s beautiful rosebush & so many mushrooms this wet year
a weedy clover bouquet & my favourite country lane near my house
books read/reading (we are reading Little Dorrit aloud, as Dickens was meant to be)
baking, tea- always tea & the latest sewing refashioning project
berry picking bounty & after the rain
July 15, 2016 @ 11:49 pm
Oh, what a pretty life you lead! These pictures are all wonderful. 🙂
July 18, 2016 @ 3:16 pm
Haha- thanks 🙂
July 19, 2016 @ 8:06 am
These snippets of your daily life are really, really sweet and beautiful, dear Nicole. I too take far more images than I share online and suspect I always will. I’m very nostalgic, love photography, and am also a scrapbooker, so with the advent of digital photography, not taking scores of snaps just wouldn’t make sense to me. 🙂
xoxo ♥ Jessica
July 19, 2016 @ 4:26 pm
Glad to hear I am not the only one who does so 🙂
July 23, 2016 @ 11:25 pm
I find that “normal” photos are the nicest because they let us remember the simple days that we would otherwise forget.
Heba xx || The Heba
July 24, 2016 @ 8:14 am
Exactly right! 🙂
August 3, 2016 @ 6:09 am
Lovely glimpses of daily life. Thank you so much for the bolero pattern.
August 3, 2016 @ 1:18 pm
You are so welcome! Hope you enjoy the pattern- and I’d love to see how it turns out, if you end up making it 🙂