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It seems like forever since my last post. Maybe it's because I haven't been feeling very creative lately, and I've been extremely focused on school and all the things we've been doing lately (open house, and yearbook deadlines).

My day is such a chaotic, wonderful mix of craziness and unexpected events, by the time I get home I'm pretty exhausted. I just want to play video games, read, or paint miniatures (yes, I'm a geek).

Since I don't have much new material, I took some time this morning to go back through the archives. This photo, taken in mid-2003 at 6:45 in the morning was a sort of awakening for me.

It was a morning of an amazing, thick fog that still couldn't hold back the radiant sunrise above it. The light was trying its best to fight through, sending amazing streaks of yellow through the trees all over the country landscape. I took several hundred photos that morning with an old 4 megapixel Nikon point-and-shoot. None of them really worked out, except this one. I was trying too hard to take pictures of the light coming through the fog, instead of using the fog and lighting to my advantage. This was the one - the photo that first, to me, made me say "wow." It wasn't perfect. This is the uncropped, in-camera version. The color is off, my perspective was hurried (I didn't really know at the time that this spot would be so cool), and even my focus was a bit off.

But... when I got home to check out my shots on the monitor, it was this photo that grabbed me and told me "this is what I need to be doing." It was one of the most exciting moments in my photographic life.

I've been out to this spot several times since - usually whenever I get a new camera - and I've gotten much better shots at this location since.

No matter what, though, I don't think I'll have quite the same "wow" moment again, and this little 4 megapixel digital capture will always be among my favorites.