B, I Bought a Camera
B,
It finally happened! I finally bought a camera—it’s not a borrowed one… it’s ours. We’ve tried many times since middle school to get our hands on our own DSLR, and it has finally happened.
Although, I must admit that I never quite figured out why we’ve had such an affinity for cameras. But I do remember when we were little and how we always had to be the one holding the disposable camera… I guess… we just had a different way of the seeing the world and wanted to capture what our eyes saw. But honestly, I actually think our desire to hold a camera is attached the moment in time when creativity ruled our life and we didn’t feel burdened by the responsibility of competency—the feeling of always having to achieve something.
I do think that the thousands of photos and videos that we’ve taken throughout the years has helped make taking photographs with a DSLR easier to understand. I mean, we’ve only learned a few new things so far from YouTube videos, but some our first photographs are stunning.
This photograph of the parking garage sign in downtown Springfield was one of the very first photos that we took with our new camera, and I think this one has to be my favorite one so far—it feels very noir and almost Gotham like…
Oh, I want to show you these photos too that we took walking around Historic C-Street. They really capture that vintage feel that we adore so much…
We took a lot of photographs that night, and we probably would have taken more had it not started to rain. But out of all those photos from that night of walking around Historic C-Street, I think the photograph of the firehouse door has to be my number two favorite photo that we’ve taken so far—I really love how we thought to capture it from a bug’s eye view.
Now B, I must apologize because I know when I decided to buy the camera I said that I would fight against my Enneagram Three and ENTP tendencies and wait at least year before I even thought about letting this new camera benefit others—I bought it as a hobby and to help create content for my business—not to build another “business venture.” However, when the opportunity to volunteer as the lead for the photo booth during Greene County’s Out of the Darkness Walk presented itself, I just couldn’t resist. You know, I don’t get nervous much, but pretty nervouse and kind of scared that the photos wouldn’t turn out great since this was my first time photographing an event, but I think we did a pretty good job.
This purchase was definitely delayed gratification, but I think that in this case the delay was worth the wait because during a time where we don’t find much joy in life right now, pickup up our new camera to photograph what we see allows us to experience a sense of relief.
It’s not over yet,
Braylon