Sometimes photography is about capturing breathtaking landscapes, beautiful sunsets, and those fleeting moments that make you appreciate the world around you.
Other times, it’s about your boyfriend sitting on the couch looking like a disgruntled unicorn who just got served divorce papers.
And honestly? Both deserve a place in the photo album. 🤣
When people think about photography, they tend to think about beautiful pictures. Perfect lighting, flattering angles, carefully chosen backgrounds, and subjects who actually know they’re having their picture taken. And don’t get me wrong, I love all of that. There’s something incredibly satisfying about planning a photograph and watching everything come together exactly how you imagined it.
But some of my favorite pictures have absolutely nothing to do with any of those things.
Sometimes, the moment is just too good not to capture.
Take this week’s photograph, for example.
There was no photoshoot planned. No artistic vision. No carefully considered composition. Just my boyfriend, sitting on the couch, wrapped in a sparkly blue unicorn blanket, looking like he’s contemplating every decision that led him to this particular moment in his life.
Naturally, I took a picture. Because what else was I supposed to do? Let a moment like that go undocumented? Absolutely not. ☠️
And that’s something I think we sometimes forget about photography.
Not every photograph has to be a masterpiece. Not every picture needs to be edited, framed, or worthy of hanging on somebody’s wall. Sometimes, the entire purpose of taking a photograph is to remember something that made you laugh.
I love photographing people when they’re comfortable enough to be themselves. The ridiculous expressions, the unexpected outfits, the laughter that happens between posed pictures. Those little moments often reveal more personality than the photographs we spend twenty minutes trying to get just right.
And years from now, when I’m looking back through old pictures, I know there will be plenty of beautiful photographs that make me smile.
But I can almost guarantee that this one will still make me laugh.
Because memories aren’t always made during big, important occasions. Sometimes they’re made on an ordinary day, in an ordinary living room, when somebody decides that a unicorn blanket is perfectly acceptable attire.
And really, who am I to argue with fashion? 🤣
So, here’s my little photography reminder for the week: take the ridiculous pictures. Capture the silly faces, the mismatched outfits, the unplanned moments, and the things that probably won’t make sense to anyone outside your household.
They might not be the photographs that win awards, but they could very well become the ones you treasure most.
Besides, the world already has plenty of serious portraits.
It could probably use a few more disgruntled unicorns.
Until next time,
-Destiny 🖤
P.S. For the record, no unicorns were harmed in the making of this photograph. Their dignity, however, is another story. ☠️
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