Photo Challenges

Trippers are expected to take on this challenge every day and add their favorites (one or two a day). Trippers will add other photographs to their individual blog page.

Photography really is learning the art of how to see. Often when encountering so much that is new and exciting, we get caught up in how much we see by taking a quick snapshot of that amazing experience and quickly moving on. Photography, done well, challenges us to slow down and truly be in the moment. It forces the photographer to consider the story they want to convey, the feeling they want to portray, or to capture the uniqueness of that experience that is impossible to relive with those exact same circumstances. No matter how many times I've been to Japan and seen the same sights, there is always a fresh way to view what I am experiencing. The goal is certainly not perfection, but the creation of a "haiku moment" that allows others to share my experiences and interpret them as they may.