Transitions

[Raleigh, NC]

it’s just like a photographer to latch on to someone else’s story in order to attempt to explain one’s own.

good thing i’m not really a photographer, just a college-kid with a camera.  good thing i find rationalizations for every shortcoming.   

this week i was blessed with the opportunity to return to the US for a few days for a little photo work.  it was a double blessing as the shoot was relatively near-to-home which allowed me to swing by my parent’s old place to collect those things which remained from my adolescence and also bid farewell to mom, dad, and the family dog as they depart to create a new home on the much cooler coast of a certain mitten-shaped state.  

the week’s schedule looked something like this:

Santiago, Chile >> Norfolk, Va >> Outer Banks, Nc >> Norfolk, Va >> Outer Banks, Nc >> Boone, Nc >> Lake Lure, Nc >> Asheville, Nc >> Lake Lure, Nc >> Winston-Salem, Nc >> Raleigh, Nc >> Santiago, Chile

toss in the physical strain of a water-bourn parasite acquired on Rapa Nui and subtract several hours of much-needed sleep and my friends you have a consequence of wander lust: thorough exhaustion.

back to that story..

the image above is of a delightful friend and musician Rob Morrell.  if you run into him, give him a pat on the back for wrapping up his master’s degree.  he is currently transitioning out of his apartment and into a career.

the second image is of my dear friend Janelle, during the father-daughter dance at her wedding reception last weekend.  though she and her new husband are the happiest couple imaginable, this moment of intense emotion was shared with her father as she said goodbye to her childhood.  

transitions, though frequently positive, as in the cases above and that in my current life tend to release much otherwise pent-up emotion.  throughout the next year or so, i plan to revisit this topic as a sort of self reflection but also fascination with a vulnerable moment of the soul.