For those of you who don't know, I moved to Denver Colorado this past August. This place is incredible. I've been wanting to capture everything Colorado has to offer. The views from the mountains, the city landscapes, especially the changing seasons and the trees changing color, but it's been impossible. Yesterday, on my morning bike ride to yoga the light was perfectly reflecting off the river I ride along and I wanted to stop and capture everything in that moment. It was during that ride I realized the picture I would stop and take wouldn't capture the moment I was in. Don't get me wrong, I love capturing moments and love ATTEMPTING to capture a single place in a single frame but I'm having a hard time doing so since moving to Colorado. There's some type of magic here that can't be captured by a camera. It's something you have to feel, you have to experience in person. While wanting to capture more pictures here, I must say putting my phone and GoPro down have caused me to open my eyes to more that is around me and live more in the moment. Anyone seen that nature valley commercial where the dad and daughter hike to the top of a mountain and she takes a bunch of pictures trying to get the best shot? I'm 100% guilty of being like that girl but that Dads advice at the end really hits the nail on the head for where a lot of the world is at right now. He says something along the lines of the only way to capture a place like that is to sit and enjoy the moment. Instagram won't be around forever guys and I feel that it's more important to enjoy the moment rather than the amount of likes you get (I'm totally guilty of this too, and totally going to work on decreasing my use of it). While I do enjoy sharing my pictures as well as seeing others, my goal for the future is to not care about getting the "perfect shot." However, when they come along I will share. Today I spent the day in Washington Park with friends and on my bike ride home ended up passing the lake at a perfect moment and had to pull over. This is unedited and still doesn't capture what was actually happening in real life. I will do my best to share more of my time in Colorado but I do not apologize if my sharing significantly decreases. I urge you all to do the same. Increase your iphone battery life by leaving your phone in your bag.
