not necessarily anywhere particular...

I'm guilty

of watching people

and

I do it all the time

everywhere I go

and

always walk away

having learned something

about

who I am

::

this year I'm making a promise to myself

to try to photograph

these people I watch

even more

than I did this past year

::

a project of sorts

I guess

even though I don't have a name for it yet

or

a vision for exactly how I want to do it

or

what I want to do with it

::

but

strangers intrigue me

and

make me smile

and

for some reason they seem to be completely at ease with me

when I start a conversation with them

and

almost always say

"of course"

when I ask them if I can take their picture

::

so

with my camera in my hand

and

patience riding along with my curious

~stranger loving~

heart

I hope to fill a number of my posts this year

with

the faces

and

hopefully some amazing stories

of those I meet

in the middle of

nowhere in particular

~

the little boy playing in the sand at sunset

was who I was photographing

and

whose father I had already talked to about pictures

but

when the other little boy ran into the photo

wide eyed

with a look of

"that's what I want to do when I'm grow up"

well

I couldn't resist

~