Why do I like this image so much?
Even before I could press the little black button on the camera and heard the sound of the `click' I knew, in the pit of my stomach, that this was going to be a memorable shot.
Sometimes I even manage to scare myself when I can a shot in a jiffy and feel it in my gut -the feeling of I have `the' shot.
It is not arrogance. It might be downright ignorance. But I just cannot help that feeling in my gut which say, `yeah, you have got it.'
At times, I involuntarily gravitate towards a particular spot and turn the settings in my camera, which would be just right for the shot that I would be taking a few minutes later. That is not spooky. Some even call it preparation. What is spooky is I would be doing it without actually realising that I am doing it.
I wouldn't even know that I would be taking that particular shot least of all that I should be taking it from that particular spot and with that particular aperture. Now THAT is spooky -by all in a good way.
In jest I tell my friends that I have a personal photo guru who guides me every step of the way. But jokes apart, I will always remember what my friend once told me. I was lamenting about how I am unable to wrap my brains around the circumstances that led me to stumble upon the calling of my life and how I am doing what I am doing. She said, "You have been given a gift. Accept it. Appreciate it. Enjoy it. And live it. Stop analyzing it."
Good advice. I have long since stopped analyzing how I am doing what I am doing. I have learnt to revel in it and enjoy it to the hilt.
And every time I can `the' shot and feel that tingly feeling in my stomach, I say a small `thank you' for the gift and move on to revel in the next.
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