With photography, I sometimes find that beautiful and interesting sights are diminished slightly by either the act of setting up and taking a photo or the FOMO (for lack of a better term) of not taking one. Maybe writing better allows us to capture special moments after the fact, but do you ever find yourself distracted, thinking, "How am I going to describe this?" Just curious. I really enjoyed some of your descriptions in this piece.
Ooh, I do relate. I think with writing, for me, it goes both ways—on occasion, thinking about how I might want to describe something later helps me take it in more deeply in the moment (that happened specifically with the white lichen we saw on the Everglades hike) but other times I get all wrapped up trying to write the sentences in my head in real time and then I miss things. I can only imagine how the photography setup can be an even more intense version of that!
With photography, I sometimes find that beautiful and interesting sights are diminished slightly by either the act of setting up and taking a photo or the FOMO (for lack of a better term) of not taking one. Maybe writing better allows us to capture special moments after the fact, but do you ever find yourself distracted, thinking, "How am I going to describe this?" Just curious. I really enjoyed some of your descriptions in this piece.
Ooh, I do relate. I think with writing, for me, it goes both ways—on occasion, thinking about how I might want to describe something later helps me take it in more deeply in the moment (that happened specifically with the white lichen we saw on the Everglades hike) but other times I get all wrapped up trying to write the sentences in my head in real time and then I miss things. I can only imagine how the photography setup can be an even more intense version of that!