Friday, August 5, 2011
On My Other Reflection
You should date a girl who takes photographs.
Date a girl who takes photographs. Date a girl whose favourite sound is the click-click of the shutter as it closes and opens to capture a memory. Date a girl who sees beauty in the simplest of things. Date a girl who looks at the world and wonders how to put a little of herself into it.
You might find her in the park, lost behind her
lens, the world a blur around her as she tries to capture a single
moment in time. You might find her in an exhibit, a look of
concentration on her face as she contemplates a photograph that called
out to her as she was passing by. Or maybe you will find her in a
bookstore, a book in her lap as she pores over photographs of weddings
all the while wondering what hers would look like.
Take her out to photo walks and laugh as she tries
to take a picture of you. When she gets tired of walking, buy her
cupcakes but wait until she has taken pictures of them before eating
them. Listen as she tells you her ideas for a photoshoot on the ride
home.
Take her to a restaurant and wait patiently as she
surveys the menu carefully, appreciating the food photography. And
again, wait until she has taken a photo of your food before digging in.
Allow her to introduce you to Ansel Adams while you both eat your
lunch. Introduce her to your favorite musician as you wait for the bill
to arrive. When you get home, change your Facebook profile picture to a
photograph she has taken of you. She silently hopes for it.
Take stolen shots of her. Compile it and give it to
her on her birthday. Tell her you love her over and over until your
voice replaces the click of the shutter as her favourite sound. Kiss her
on the nose as she lifts her head up from the camera. Give her
camera-shaped necklaces. Go places with her.
You will never be bored again.
Date a girl who takes photographs. She will never
whine about a little dirt on her favourite pair of jeans as she kneels
down to get a better angle of her subject. She will never be afraid to
go on adventures with you. She will take photographs of you not just
with her camera but with her mind as well and keep it to herself to
admire late at night. But above all, she will teach you how to look at
the world through different perspectives and she will do so unknowingly.
Marry a girl who takes photographs. Ditch those
wedding photography books and give her the most beautiful wedding you
could. She will teach your kids to find the beauty in everything just as
she has taught you. Every day will be an adventure as she tries to
create memories photograph-worthy with you. She may wake you up in the
middle of the night because she is buzzing with ideas but she will make
it up in the morning with a stack of hot pancakes beside a steaming cup
of your favourite coffee blend.
Grow old with a girl who takes photographs. Sit
with her on the front porch as you both pore over the bits and pieces of
the moments you’ve shared together. Stroke her hair as you both relive
the photo walks that you took and the places you went when you were
both young. Smile as you both reenact your clever wedding vows.
Date a girl who takes photographs because she will
never let anyone take you away from her like she will never let anyone
steal her photographs. Because she will inspire the fuck out of you.
Because she will always see that “something” in the most “nothing” of
things.
- Claiie
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