Everyday beauty...

So we were driving back from Birmingham and as you come into Georgia on 20, there is a pulpwood plant with a large grove of trees out front. Smokestacks in the background pumping out black smoke with this beautiful setting in front got me thinking about the beauty that surrounds the mundane... everyday, I pass by beauty in many forms without giving a second thought... A child on the playground, a leaf lying in a puddle, the shadows from a row of trees, etc. are moments to be captured in our mind's eye for their beauty, innocence, uniqueness, vibrance, and I could go on... Jen and I are very blessed to live in these beautiful NC mountains, but how often do I really pause to recognize the beauty in God's creation? Sad to say, not very often... Most of the time, I am too "busy" to stop and recognize a moment of beauty.

So here goes, I really want to make a conscientious effort to capture (rather in camera or in my mind's eye) beauty of all kinds. It is easy to see at weddings and portrait shoots as their is interaction between people. However, I want to also be mindful of the pleasing aesthetic at the grocery store or in the mountains or on the freeway. There is eye candy everywhere if we keep our eye's open for it.

I'll start this post with a few images and would love to hear from you your thoughts. As well, if you have taken any shots of beautiful moments or colors or flowers or people, please email me a shot and I'll post it on the blog after we get a few.. Hopefully, at the very least, we'll begin to pause and enjoy what's around us instead of only looking at what's ahead of us..

Here are a couple from the side of ga20 coming into Rome, GA on Sunday. The last is from a farm in Winston-Salem last weekend..