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Words: I don't set out to sit and watch many sunrises or sunsets, but I always pause to appreciate them when I happen to catch them. I love waking up during sunrises to a wonderful pink glow and the faint outlines of clouds, which look so much like a painting that I expect cherubs to hop out of them at any minute, outside of my bedroom window. Sunsets are trickier, as our horizon has been defeated not by pirates of the new age, as Mr. Jack Johnson has suggested, but by mostly trees (and the buildings directly across the street from us).
Here's what you can take from this:
- Taking pictures when you're subject is light itself is no easy feat. Taking pictures of sunsets and sunrises is a good way to learn to play with the settings on your camera, though. I took this photo at a low exposure, which allowed me to capture the pink light, but also silhouetted the trees and the foreground of the photo. I also snapped a few at a high exposure. In those photos, the cars and street and building could be seen, but the color of the sunset wasn't visible: it was just a bright light. Don't have time for a sunset or sunrise? Try taking pictures of a candle or a lamp.
- Instead of focusing on a particular sunrise, I wrote about how sunrises and sunsets fit into my life in general. I love that I could tell multiple stories with each photo: I could have described the moment I took the picture, I could have talked about the sunsets my now-husband and I used to watch during our courtship, I could have written about the unwritten importance of sunsets to us while on vacation (because they represent relaxing, for some reason), I could have written about the importance to stop and take in beauty in the world as it comes. Write about what inspires you at the time, but don't feel limited to one story. In fact, I might go write about those sunset dates right now.
- I incorporated lyrics from a Jack Johnson song into my journaling, because that song always pops into my head when something is blocking the horizon. The words you write don't always have to be your own; if someone says it better, let them say it fore you (but, of course, give credit where credit is due).
This is my documentation from the Daily Doc | Nov 2012 handout. It has 30 prompts to use if you get stuck documenting. I'm tackling all of these this month AND doing unplanned daily documentation. I printed out the prompts (pages 2-4 of the handout) and I'm highlighting them to cross them off as I go. I'm not doing them in order; I'm using them as they make sense for me.
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