Sometimes we’re fortunate to be a part of something that changes the way you see the world, or in my instance, something that changes the way we look at things creatively.
It was an overcast Tuesday that threatened to storm when a friend of mine called wanting to do a photo shoot. We’d planned to roughly do something, though we didn’t have anything specific in mind – an hour and some crafty packing of my little car – we were in Centennial Park in Sydney with a Louis XVII chair and with Edith Piaf’s “Je Non Regret Rien” stuck in my head.
“No! Absolutely nothing…
No! I regret nothing
Neither the good that I’ve done nor the bad
All this is much the same to me!
No! Absolutely nothing…
No! I regret nothing…
Because my life, because my joys
Today that begins with you!”
Thank you to the Sydney weather for keeping the rain away until we finished shooting and thank you to the Fabulous Adora for being so open and letting me be a part of something that made me a better photographer and that was a heck of a lot of fun
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
by Len
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