This year I have been paying special attention to traditional landscape framing, in addition to my favorite close range depth-focusing style. It is always a challenge, of course, but in the Phoenix Mountains especially it can be difficult to find terrain in which little or none of the surrounding city peeks into the shot. Predictably, I tend to look towards the center point, to Piestewa itself. But now and then a lucky vista will open up facing outward, and if the lighting is right, it can become something really special. Also evident are saguaros featured in the foreground, simply because they’re neat, and they’re everywhere.
Please let me know if you like what I’ve been doing this year, I realize none of my physical projects have materialized yet but, as always, I have exciting irons in the fire and feedback always helps refine which are prioritized!
I wonder if one day I’ll forget what color your eyes are. Because my dad doesn’t remember the name of his high school girlfriend and my mom doesn’t remember the model of her first car. We forget things that were one day so obvious to us, and so important. Things that once meant the world to us become distant memories, then eventually forgotten. So the good news is one day I might not remember the exact words that broke my heart, but the bad news is I also won’t remember how blue your eyes are.
