My list of favorite things is pretty wide-ranging.  Photography is right at the top.  I think it can be quite magical.

The entire concept of it astonishes me. That single moment…. one brief little instant… is forever fixed and captured. And it transforms the real life experience from a three dimensional realm to the second dimensional plane. Evermore caught in time. This photography thing is a profound entity…. I think.

I love old photographs. I collect them.

I like to do restoration work on them. So while the one posted this evening, obviously isn’t my image, I have been doing a restore on it.

This image is exemplary of why I love photography so. It has grasped this amazing moment, and held it still…. for the rest of us to see.

I don’t know who she is. Or what year this may be. Or even where this was taken.

But to me it is magical. A woman. With her little dog. Sharing a wonderful interaction… so long ago. So sweet and tender. It makes me imagine…. so many things. I feel like I become some sort of a Time Traveler… catapulted back through the years… to that moment on the beach. That little mystical, magical moment… between this woman and her dog.

That’s something. Really something.  Yes.  I truly love the captured image.

“Why is it that every time I’m with you, makes me believe in magic?” – Unknown