Even though I’m a professional photographer, I don’t have my camera with me all the time.  (For example, when I go on vacation, usually the last thing I pack is my camera.)  I’ve been coming from jobs, seen something beautiful and said, “Wow, that’s pretty,” but don’t stop to take a picture of it because all of my equipment is packed up in the trunk of my car.

And nowadays, there’s a camera connected to everyone’s phones, so you can snap any shot you want.  Though there are only two times I use the phone on my camera.  A. When I  see something so crazy I can’t explain it to my wife without a picture, or B. I’m in a store and I want to know if a certain company makes more than what the store shelves are carrying, I take a picture and look it up later. 

I am so glad they did not have camera phones when I was young.  It was hard enough growing up in a small town in Connecticut where, when you messed up downtown, by the time you got home, your mother knew all about it.  Now they can take a video of you acting a fool and just send it to her in an email.  Now I know what they mean by the good old days.

So, it’s Spring now.  Sometimes, seeing these flowers bloom all over the place as I’m driving down the road, I think, “Wouldn’t it be great if I were a staff photographer for some place like Longwood Gardens?”  I think of how easy it would be to get a lot of great shots.  But then I realize that I’ve never had a shoot indoors where I had thunder and rain to deal with.  ...The grass always looks greener....

For those of you who know me, well, I like doing all types of photography.  Though I have never done underwater photography.  There are two reasons for that.  1. I can’t swim (yes, you people know I’m ex-Navy, yes, I can’t swim).  2. I was never asked nor had the desire  to do underwater photography.  I guess I’m a true land mammal. 

I am lucky and blessed to do what I do.  Confucius said, Choose a job you love, and you will never work another day in your life. 

Today’s Photo of the Month is a sight I have been driving past for the last 17 years I’ve been living in my neighborhood.  Every spring I see this shot and I have never stopped to take a picture of it.  So this year when I saw it, I drove back to my studio, got my camera, and photographed it.  It was a great feeling of accomplishment to be able to see something and photograph it just for the beauty of it, just because I enjoyed it. 

In closing, think about all those little projects or ideas we’ve put on the back burner that we keep saying we’re going to get to one day.  I’m not talking about putting a pool in your backyard, I’m talking about some of those little ones.  Like I’m going to try that new restaurant, or I’m going to meet that new neighbor at the end of the street, or I’m going to sit down with my mother and her friends and talk about the true good old days. 

If you get a lot of those little things off of that back burner, you feel a little better about life, like I do about my Photo of the Month here. 

Hope everyone’s doing well, talk to you next month!

-Kevin S. Nash

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