Time to Look

My blogging software begins with a prompt: Start writing …

Perhaps I need to start all of my classes the same way: Start looking …

Late this afternoon, I took one of our dogs to the vet. Technically, back to a vet we used to use, but hadn’t in a while. Something was wrong and we needed another opinion.

Questions, pokes, prods, looks, swabs … after a bit, they said she needed another swab, an ear treatment and shot. Off she went, leaving me … alone. In a pet exam room.

So I did what most people don’t do: I started looking.

Not at my phone, but at the room. Signs, colors, shapes, forms, layers.

Will this go in a portfolio, get me a gig? No. I’m no William Eggleston. But I like the frame, I took a moment to look.

Over at Macfilos, Paul. De Kruiff has a post about slow photography. A summer challenge for you: Go somewhere, anywhere, spend ten minutes and then make just one photograph.