The day before had been sunny and I had grand plans of doing lots of self-portraits during the weekend on the coast. Plans rarely go as they we think they will and I hadn’t taken a single self-portrait so I headed out for a few minutes alone on the sand plain ridge above the shore.
The wind was ferocious and I let it take away my need to take self-portraits for ‘work’ and leave me with the simple craving to tell the story of this trip and have myself in a few of the photos while I was busy aiming the lens at all the people I love and the gorgeous landscape around us.
My scarf which was worn to keep me warm became a prop and I took just a few shots before the sand blowing around and risk of rain had me hiking back to the house again.
So glad I paused for those few moments. Sometimes we need to let go of the ‘grand plans’ and just take a few moments to tell the visual story that if it were words would read ‘I was here’.
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