THE CLOSEST I’VE GOT TO FEELING A MOMENT TWICE

Last year I started to use disposable cameras a lot. To the point that every time I went in to get my film developed the guy behind the counter would already be yelling at me about how I need to go to nearest Value Village or Goodwill to get a point and shoot camera - “Stop wasting more money than you need! Capture more pure moments because you’ll always have a little camera on you”.. That same day I drove to Goodwill and picked up this lil Canon you see below for $2.99, it was a gamble testing it out for all of these moments during Summer at home, all the new hikes I had done with this as the only camera I took. It was a big gamble. But I felt I would appreciate the moments a lot more when I looked back a couple months later and saw those places and feelings again. So here we are, in October looking back at Summer in WA; Washington in all it’s true glory.

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

Photo DiariesNiki HerringOctober 21, 2019Comment

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.