I have a vicious addiction to the camera. Really quite bad. From time to time (not all that often), I have to force myself to take a "day off", and leave my camera at home when we go out to dinner or what have you. Even in a restaurant, it's terribly difficult for me to sit for more than an hour without looking through the lens.
There are worse addictions, I suppose. Photography is creative, at least, and anything visual that one practices on a daily basis hones the eye for other visually-creative skills. So it isn't a total loss.
When one spends as much time behind the lens as I do, there are those magical occasions on which what happens on the far side of the lens is like a new play unfolding...a fairytale in a foreign tongue, heard for the first time. No way to guess what the ending might hold or how the story will unfold.
Sometimes, behind the lens, one has a preconceived idea of what sort of shot one is looking for. It can be dictated by the light, the occasion, the setting, the season. But on those rare, magical days, one has no preconceptions and anything can happen. It's a mystery waiting to unfold.

So it was that on this day, when we stopped spontaneously at a local school playground, dormant for summer except for passers-by like us, I noticed this girl.
To me, seeing her like this, unexpectedly, through the lens, she appeared as a fairy princess trapped by a jealous spell in the arms of an enchanted and malevolent vine.


In fact, the actual game (heard distantly through my dormant ears, since other senses recede when you grow accustomed to the tyranny of the lens) had something to do with one person being in jail, while the rest play on through the game. A very common theme for children's games.







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6 comments:
I can't figure out which is more beautiful today, your images or words.
Beautiful shots again ! I have the same addiction and I hope to keep it ! I hope the same for you ;)
great post maia! loved the cracked playground!
Oh! and you have an excellent eye for photos! Glad you keep that camera around and shower us with so much beauty and joy! Always so much light in your photos. Thanks sweet Maia. Kisses to Q!
I love my camera addiction
Maia once you have the itch it is nearly impossible to shake it. I have been shooting professionally for almost 12 years and I still take my camera everywhere I go. I plan vacations around whether they will make good photos or not! I don't like to go to places I can't document. It brings me so much joy that I just go with it. One day a week I go without and that is about it!
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