I took these two shots whist at a cafe in town. Dad was sitting down at a nearby table holding his baby, and I was thinking this would make a great photo.

As I fumbled around to extract my camera from my bag (note to self: always have your camera on the table in cafes), Dad stood up and walked out into the sunshine.
Rocking and bobbing his son gently in the light.

Perfect.

And then an old couple and a boy walked up in conversation. It was like…the four ages of man. It was a moment that came together to linger for a few seconds.

And that’s what photography is. A capture of the lingering moment. Unlike video, it documents the nowfulness (better by far than mindfulness) of things.

Video can never do that. It is constantly scrolling to the next moment. A moment that is itself lost in motion towards the next.

A good photograph adds nothing extra and subtracts everything elsewise.

Fair reminder to linger rather than scroll, to live your life like a photo not a video.

—ooOOoo—

I dont know which photo I like better, but I am very pleased with both of them. I’ll give myself a 9/10 in the moment baby steps.