Things that Fly!

The reason I love pictures

This week, after somewhat of an extended break, I went back to school. Though I haven’t been idle over the past 2 years my first couple days back at university make me feel pretty small and a little stupid. Well not stupid so much as worried that I might have forgotten the first two years of knowledge university provided me. Though it seems a bit daunting right now I’m lucky to have a lot of motivation for success in the form of a beautiful (and by the way extremely brainy) girlfriend and a light at the end of the tunnel sort-of-speak.

Our photography company is slowly but surely coming along. SLR Photography (an Acronym for Steve Lauren Rob) is on its way to having a website. It’s still in the early stages of development, but baby steps are still steps in the right direction. This photography company is something constantly on my mind and with every class I walk into I walk in with one objective above all others: What can I take away from this class to help us create a more successful business? I know that I can take a lot away from university if I think of classes in this way. But anyways I’m getting away from what I wanted to say.

I like photography. I like the idea of light entering a box with limitless possibilities of subjects, exposures, and compositions. It’s something that has been around for a long time but something that can be approached from an original and innovative angle. This excites me a lot. But beyond the mechanic and technical details of photography I love the actual products: the pictures.

A picture can show people new and fascinating places. It can convey the whole spectrum of emotions. It can be a memory. I have never had the greatest memory but when I look at a picture I’ve taken I can remember exactly how I was feeling at the moment it was taken. It gives me a snapshot of not only the scene before me but the period of my life.


This picture was taken on the island of Santorini in Greece. Lauren and I had spent the day bumming around the beach. We were riding around on our scooter looking for a high place to shoot the sunset from and accidentally stumbled upon some narrow pathways affording great views of the setting sun, the main town and gorgeous posh little resorts. A few minutes before this picture was taken Lauren had just taken a panorama of the cliffside town. We heard some commotion and turned around to witness a wedding procession walking along the path towards a church. The procession was led by a couple men playing violins, actually it looks like one may be playing a lyre. I wish that this were a better picture. I can think of how I would have composed it differently, what lens I would have used and what exposure setting. I can see how the picture may not mean anything to anyone else but me, but I think it’s beautiful. I love how it makes me feel, and the things I remember when I see this picture. It is this feeling that makes me so passionate about this photography company. It’s a feeling I want to be able to share. I want to be able to take pictures that will instill emotion in people, fascinate people, make people realize how beautiful life is. I’m lucky to have a couple great friends who share this same dream of mine.

Anyways I suspect that things will slow down more with school and all, but I’ll keep up the posting.

posted by Rob and Lauren @ 11:04 PM