Posts in Photo Diaries

THE CLOSEST I’VE GOT TO FEELING A MOMENT TWICE

The real reason I love shooting film is because it’s the closest I’ve got to feeling a moment twice in my life.

Photo DiariesNiki HerringOctober 21, 2019Comment

FALL IN WA

“The earth has music for those who listen”

- George Santayana

Photo DiariesNiki HerringOctober 6, 2019Comment

5173 MILES

The world only exists in your eyes

You can make it as big or small as you want

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Photo DiariesNiki HerringSeptember 22, 2019Comment

$10 DISPOSABLE; PRICELESS MEMORIES

Book a couple plane tickets with your best friend for a trip 6 months later.. Work like crazy and save every penny until then. Go and spend all that money you just worked for on priceless memories

Buy a disposable camera: carry it in your pocket like it’s your whole life. Anything that makes you feel a little thing in that second, take a photo. Then wait a month or two, to get that film developed and feel yourself back in those feelings and memories. Those one second feelings

Photo DiariesNiki HerringAugust 21, 2019Comment

BREATHING DREAMS LIKE AIR

“Breathing dreams like air”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Photo DiariesNiki HerringJuly 30, 2019ireland Comments

6 YEARS OF DREAMING AND I FINALLY MADE IT

“My confession is I fall in love with so many places I’m always half broken-hearted by goodbyes. And I don’t believe in non-attachment. There’s no passion inside of that. I believe in burning, in longing. And I believe we leave tiny pieces of ourselves in every place we’ve loved.”

Photo DiariesNiki HerringJuly 25, 2019iceland Comments

THE TRIP I'LL LOOK BACK ON FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?”

Photo DiariesNiki HerringJuly 19, 2019thailand Comment

FIRST OF FILM

Moments almost forgotten- I think that's what I love most about film now.. It's not until weeks later when you get the film back you realize how special a moment was until you're looking back at it as a memory

Photo DiariesNiki HerringDecember 22, 2018Comment

MY FIRST SOLO TRIP

We take photographs as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone

Photo DiariesNiki HerringDecember 22, 2018Comment

Life

LIKE WE WERE YOUNG AGAIN.

I’ve felt like more childlike wonder these past 2 months than I did all of my last year total. You see, I always have a young spirit and I love spontaneity, adventure, always being on the go, you name it. But with that, also comes an old soul in me; the worrying and figuring out of the future. I sometimes forget the slow down period. The period of looking around and taking in everything that this moment offers. I forget to scream to the world just how happy I am when I feel like it, to laugh out loud to the point someone could mistake it for a dying seal, to cry when I feel something. Sometimes I just forget to really live. Like how we did when we were young.

A YEAR OF LESSONS

Here we are again. End of December looking back at everything that happened throughout this whole year, that bittersweet reflection of everything you’ve done throughout the past 365 days. That sort of painful sit down of looking back knowing it’s about to be nothing but memories in the past. Knowing all those moments were literally once in a lifetime. It’s so bittersweet.

WINTERTIME BLUES.

Some days are better than others.. I’m sure if you suffer with depression or anxiety like I do, you know that sometimes you’re on top of the world and it feels like you could scream to it just how happy you are and how great life is.. Sometimes the world feels like it’s crushing down on you instead. To a point you just want it to suffocate you, to take away the uninvited thoughts and feelings. Right now it feels a lot like being suffocated.