I took these photos at my favorite park where I live. I've run many miles across the same bridges at this park, passed the same people and the same trees and felt the same calmness and challenge when I run. It's a safe and familiar place for me. It's funny, when I moved to Tyler for college, this park wasn't a place of comfort, and it wasn't part of my routine. I think a lot about when change happens, and people have to adapt and find new, familiar places. It's ironic, really, because people resist change so much, but then get so comfortable adapting to that change that it becomes routine and normal.
Photography is so important to me because there is always a part of the photographer in each photo. I've always wondered, too, if I have a certain style when I do my photography. I'm taking a photography class this semester, because I'm self-taught, and I've never known about the technical aspects of a camera. I've thought about what other people think when they see my pictures, whether they recognize my personality within the photos. I think that inherently, who I am as a person transcends into each photo. I even feel as though my emotions leak into my photos, too.
It's fall now, which is my most favorite season. It always comes so slowly in Texas, though; I can see a few leaves on the ground, and the others with yellow edges. It's been a complicated and different semester for me. I have an internship where I have my own cubicle, which I love. I wake up around 6:30 every day during the week and wear dresses and cardigans, polyester shirts and slacks to work with my suede oxfords that my mom bought for me when I was 14. Those oxfords have always been too nice for school, and I'm glad that I finally have a chance to wear them.
After work the other day, I went to get my nails done in a color that I thought was more maroon, but it turned out to be bright red. The girl who did my nails, Lyn, told me that I looked like a girl from England, and it made my entire day. I've started a new crochet project, too. It's a taupe, short sleeved pullover sweater that drapes in the front. After finishing that, I'd like to make a scarf with hanging tassels on the ends.
I've missed taking pictures of things that are seemingly uninteresting, but so interesting to me.