DAY 19: INTO THE FUTURE

DAY 19: INTO THE FUTURE

I couldn’t keep up!

While attending a political dinner in a Louisville Hotel with my family, I spied the arrival of my daughter and her friend from an upstairs window. She looked beautiful, and I wanted very much to capture a photo of them walking on the street below.

But…they were walking SO fast!

So I would run ahead of them through the long windowed hallway above, hoping to get sufficiently ahead of them to focus in time and capture a front view of them…

But each time I would almost get that picture I wanted, I was too late – they were already moving well ahead of me again – just gliding right on by.

It was just crazy! I finally even kicked off my high heels so I could move faster.  I was trying so hard, but the photo I was after continued to elude me.

In frustration at having missed my very last chance, I snapped a picture as they moved on by that last window – just to get something – mostly so I would have an image to remember this crazy impromptu photo-stalking mission I’d been on .

The whole ordeal affected me in an odd way. It felt symbolic! As hard as I tried, I could not keep up with my youthful daughter. She was marching into the future and I could only appreciate her from behind as she forged ahead.

So I photo-shopped the heck out of the only image I captured of that experience. And I like it. It makes me think.