Here's a fun fact about me: I try to live by two quotes. One is by Helen Bowman Cater about understanding that people have different hearts/reactions/decision processes. The other is by Taylor Swift where she says, “So lately, I've learned to really live my life, and not worry so much about documenting every split second of it. The most magical, exquisite, spontaneous things happen when there is no time to grab your phone. The best moments of my life have been too fragile, too fleeting, too magical to even try to document them with a camera. And I wish you a lifetime of moments too beautiful to capture on film.”

Which might seem counterproductive and sort of silly considering I love to capture spontaneous moments with the click of my phone camera button-- While I do try to hold true to this idea because really, when I look back on my life the highlight reel won’t be an oversaturated instagram shot of a flower but the moments in between that happened too quickly to notice at the time. Still, despite all that, my captured highlight reel these last few years would look something like this:

July 4, 2014, on a boat in New York City.

July 5, 2016. A somber affair. 9/11 Museum.

November 24, 2016. Sisters.

December 10, 2016. City.

March 9, 2016.

What’s great about pictures is how, over time, they transform from a quick snapshot to moments in time that have tag-a-long memories, feelings; rewinding back to a certain time in your life when things were different-- everything from good to bad to in-between. It’s funny how there’s a whole range of emotions that play out whenever you look back on a particular picture-- even if that feeling wasn’t there when you took the picture.