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People ask me why I stay late at night at freezing cold, traveling more than 2-5 hours and sometimes pull an all nighter just to photograph the stars, waking up...
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People ask me why I stay late at night at freezing cold, traveling more than 2-5 hours and sometimes pull an all nighter just to photograph the stars, waking up early just to capture the sunrise and staying late for sunset. This photo completely exemplifies why I do what I do.
Sometimes when looking up at the stars I will feel this overwhelming sense of connection. I’m pretty comfortable with my emotions so it’s not uncommon to see me tear up in a sad or emotional movie. At times the stars are no different. Sometimes it will just strike me that I’m staring at a cosmic show of distant memories from the past. That’s what stars are, old pictures of how it used to be. Since their light takes so much time to reach us, some of these stars are already dead. It’s a physical way to observe the past aside from books and movies. Whenever I feel like I have a problem, after an hour of gazing into the abyss, my problems seem so small. I have seen shooting stars, satellites, the milky way, the crux, the north star, mars, big dipper, little dipper, Orion’s belt, a lunar eclipse, etc. I even have an app that tells me where everything is in the stars. “Never stop being curious” is what I told myself and it has never steered me wrong. So to those who say I’m wasting my time, I think you’re missing out what is out there.
This is what I love about photography.
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Sometimes when looking up at the stars I will feel this overwhelming sense of connection. I’m pretty comfortable with my emotions so it’s not uncommon to see me tear up in a sad or emotional movie. At times the stars are no different. Sometimes it will just strike me that I’m staring at a cosmic show of distant memories from the past. That’s what stars are, old pictures of how it used to be. Since their light takes so much time to reach us, some of these stars are already dead. It’s a physical way to observe the past aside from books and movies. Whenever I feel like I have a problem, after an hour of gazing into the abyss, my problems seem so small. I have seen shooting stars, satellites, the milky way, the crux, the north star, mars, big dipper, little dipper, Orion’s belt, a lunar eclipse, etc. I even have an app that tells me where everything is in the stars. “Never stop being curious” is what I told myself and it has never steered me wrong. So to those who say I’m wasting my time, I think you’re missing out what is out there.
This is what I love about photography.
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