feel it all

"I was waiting for such a long time, she said. I thought you forgot.

It's hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone."

~ storypeople

When you feel something big (love, joy, light, anger, anxiety) grab your camera. This is the agreement I have made with my muse. She provides color and light and sounds of summer thunder from behind closed doors. I provide the camera and the willingness to step into the moment.

I have been smiling so much lately that my cheeks hurt. Suddenly I'm one of those smiley people you see smiling while driving for apparently no reason at all. I used to question those people. I'd wonder "What's making them so happy? Will I ever be that happy?"

This lightness in me was asking to be documented. I want to remember this time of feeling it all. It is simply a time of newness, and I am embracing it for as long as it stays or as fleeting as it floats away. I am here right now. Being happy.

How are you feeling? How is life treating you? Today show us a portrait that reveals a sense of feeling. Let your image tell the story of your heart.

Comments

[Marcie]

Here's one in which I explore how it is one can describe a feeling:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/home/2011/6/5/just-a-feeling.html

[ajira]

Yes, indeed! Love the image. My mind is racing with ideas about how you managed it. Always inspiring to see self-portraits... and your words resonate with me as well. The part about your agreement with your muse is touching.

[Chantal]

The story of my heart today is that I miss my husband at the moment, he is on a business trip all week, to Hungary, and I am in Holland. But... we are always together in heart and spirit...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26687796@N00/3950301080/in/photostream

[Naomi]

Clicking and waiting
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nomesthenome/4066242855/in/set-72157622589042141

[Doris]

Wonderful evocative shot! I attempted something similar with my mom last Spring. The garden is where she's happiest and this is the image I see of her in mind.

http://dorisrudddesigns.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/march-21-2010/

[Ksrla Pitts]

Love your photo!

I feel a sense of the present and the future in this image . . .watching her grow up at lightening speed before my eyes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21583056@N06/5801288847/

[Carrie]

almost 7 years married and we still act like kids and make eachother giggle helplessly. this was such a windy day and my hair was tickling my hubby's nose - I love his smile....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cherryblossomtattoo/5807628507/in/photostream

[Puna]

I love this photo! Need a tutorial on how to do it!

I guess this photo might sum up how I'm feeling -

http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/2011/06/iheartfaces-distance/

[Kat Sloma]

What fun words to go with a fun image! I love your "agreement" with your muse. I agree that our best images are those captured with emotion. I am always looking for those moments...

http://www.kateyeview.com/2011/06/gentle-twist.html

[Kathryn Dyche Dechairo]

This is how I'm feeling right now.

http://dychedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/06/textue-tuesday.html

[Jill DiMassimo]

I was feeling nervous and giddy when I shot this selfie in the ladies room at my husband's office. He had asked me to come in to shoot portraits of all the employees. I was procrastinating a bit in the bathroom to get myself psyched. Yikes!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23113159@N03/5794669469/in/photostream

[Laurie Bearce]

http://www.bearcefamily.wordpress.com

[Sandee]

No more waiting ~ the grandbaby is here!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34977978@N05/5803244236/

[Corinna]

Here's one I took of a good friend on the night before she moved away. I look at it and see the wistfulness of knowing that we are at an end... not, hopefully, The End... but certainly a transition that requires us to strip away the comfort of what we've shared in the past several years.
http://www.birdwannawhistle.com/blog/2011/4/11/blossoming.html

[Deborah]

This image sums up how I'm feeling today...stretching and growing and reaching for the sun.

http://tischd.blogspot.com/2011/06/stretching-and-growing.html

[Nature-Drunk]

Fresh and alive is how I feel. Like dewdrops glistening in the sun.

http://nature-drunk.com/?p=3439

[Stephanie]

I LOVE the Story People....their quotes are so awesome! I feel exhausted today, but am energized because I will be watching our two children play t-ball and baseball tonight! Life is good! Great picture, too.

[littlepurplecow]

Meredith, I love this image so much. How did you do it?!

[georgia]

this is so adorable... the colors, alone, make me smile. but so does your happiness.

i am deliriously happy right now. but i would be amiss if i showed it through the lens pointed at me... instead of him...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28567264@N05/5845824153/in/photostream/