i don’t know how you can be only 15 years old and already see the world so beautifully.  i know i’ve already shared some of these photos, but they just keep slaying me more and more the longer i look at them.  it amazes me, the thing about photography, how we each see this world we live in so differently.  and i know i’m always talking about beauty and how much of it there is in the world and how i want to explode half of the time, but it’s just true.  there is so much of it.  everywhere.

when i was 15, i don’t think i knew yet how to share with the world what it was that made my heart burst.  i may have tried; writing, drawing, sitting in quiet contemplation while others wondered what could possibly be going on inside my mind.  so i played sports.  i literally spent all my waking hours outside of school bouncing or kicking balls around, and while it did make me feel alive, there was something entirely other-worldy that continued to consume me.  beauty.  and so near the end of my highschool years i discovered my dads old canon AE-1 35mm camera and started trying to capture some of it.  little did i know, i was onto something.  anyway, the point is, even then i didn’t really know what it was that i was trying to, or wanted to, capture.  it took at least 5 years to really start to uncover how it was i saw the world. and it only gets more and more clear.

this girl is so far beyond where i was then.  and i just wonder what it is in her world that, at such a young age, has freed her to already see the world around her so beautifully.  but whatever it is, she has managed to unleash a part of me that i didn’t really know was there.  well, i did.. but i didn’t know how to show it.  it is fantastic, really.  it’s like a new portal has been opened and i’ve discovered a whole new side of the world that i didn’t quite see so much of before.  these are the people i long for.  the ones that bend the world; the ones that jump down those dark void holes we ourselves are afraid to and show us that even there, there is life.  the ones that are desirous and glowing and never asleep.  the one’s that make us SEE.  it makes me think that anything is possible, that the world is more magnificent than we could ever know.  even if it’s not, i’m completely fine seeing it this way.

oh, but to see the world as nothing but beautiful…

i also know you’re wondering, ‘ok steph, well why don’t you post your own photos like this?’  well, maybe you’re not wondering that, but to answer your question, sometimes it’s just nice to see the world thru someone else’s eyes.  and when i feel the need to show you mine, i will.

.love.