The Best Moments

Photo: Breezeway - Chasing the golden hour sun, I found this summer morning light moment in my neighbors back yard. Many times, both in life and in photography, the best moments are where we're planted if we look for them.


- The Best Moments -

In photography, the best moments to me are when all the elements line up together: The light, the weather (if outdoors), the people or subject, the background, and the involvement of all these together. Back in the day when I was more so making more pictures of people, yet still today, I always say a little prayer when I pick up my camera that the Lord will put before it what He wants the world to see.

In life, the best moments to me are where you become enriched or Enlighted or, better yet, where you inspire another and become enriched or Enlighted through it as well. Like when I was a young boy visiting my late Grandmother, we would sit in the breezeway together on a summer evening to watch the sunset and the birds out in the backyard at the feeder and birdbath, especially when the humid weather brought out the mosquitoes and other bugs.

Grandma would make me a sandwich and tall glass of cold milk, usually it would be hard salami with butter or liver sausage with mustard on Italian bread. I remember Grandma reading to me from National Geographic about nature, or from the encyclopedia about things like the flowers and the bugs we were seeing out the breezeway.

I also remember her sharing from Time Magazine about when Gerald Ford became president, and his history in the state of Michigan, as we have relatives from his home town. How this inspired me that you can be an ordinary person and still become extraordinary.

I few summers I would stay with my cousins in Michigan for a month. My Dad would drop us off at the train, Grandma would ride with me from Chicago and stay a couple days, then come back again a month later to 'pick me up'. I would tell Grandma about my thoughts and dreams, and wondering what it would be like, and she would listen carefully and share or expand on what I was saying.

This would always provide me insight and encouragement. Because Grandma has been (as we say in Chicago) 'around the block'. She raised five children by herself after my Grandfather passed away when my Father was himself a young boy. So Grandma had much wisdom about life.

Her advice always started with the words 'bloom where you're planted'. Because many times, as she put it, we want jump to the end before we get started. But when we start where we are, then we learn more on the way to the end result. Grandma was born and lived her childhood in Austria, so she had that European way about her, though she was also a gentle woman.

So whether it is with photographs or with life, the best moments happen I believe because with God there are no coincidences. That, if we look for it, there is something God wants to say to you through another or experience, or (say) to the world through you.

Just look around you.



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Thank you for reading,

Enjoy your day!

Frank J Casella, Art Photographer
Blogger on Fine Art America


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