I fell in love with photojournalism in college when I first discovered how much more interested a photo can be be when looked at from a different perspective. There is nothing like capturing the moments around you as they unfold. The beauty of photojournalism really shows through when at the same time you can capture it in a way other people may not have thought to. This is why my PJ professor always said “make a photograph” instead of “take.” Because anyone can take a picture, but it’s when you take a moment or a scene and put your own personal spin on it that you are creating something. If our world was different, and the news revolved around the positivity in what is happening, I would have gone into photojournalism, absolutely. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. We live in a world where people thrive on drama. When we see someone is down, for some reason I can’t explain, we all want to keep looking. You know….when you are driving down the road and you see a wrecked car, and you have to try really hard to not look. However, we see someone walking down the street smiling and waving at perfect strangers, and we think they are crazy!!!!!! Am I right? Well I arrived at my twitter this morning and discovered the greatest website. It was shared to me by BridalInquirer.com, and it is all about the good news that is happening around the world! Check it out here.There is a very good chance that if there was a local paper that did this I would be fighting for a job there as a photojournalist. Hey, maybe I’ll start my own some day?!?!….You never know 😉
Here is another photograph from our drive up the coast. The sunset was AMAZING!!!