capturing love

So the old saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words. But what kinds of feelings and emotions is a picture worth?

Yesterday I was asked to do an impromptu photoshoot for one of my best friends and his girlfriend. And looking back at the pictures I took, there's no doubt that love is the strongest thing us humans can feel. Just by looking at the album you can tell. You can tell from their eyes, you can tell from their body language, you can tell from their laughter and beaming smiles. Love seems to reach and fulfill the very depths of emotion that nothing else can. And, as I've read in my obsession with psychology nonfiction, love is one of the few (if not the only) medium that can bypass emotions. Why else would a father and mother, in a story I read about, both dive into arctic-temperature waters to save their handicapped child? Why else would a young child agree to do a bone marrow transplant for his sister, thinking it would cost his life (something I read on GMH)?

I have to say, yesterday's photoshoot has been incredibly inspirational. I used to photograph with a mission to show people the world in a way they've never seen it before, to present the familiar in unfamiliar ways. But after last night, I'm changing that mission. I'm going to capture love to the best of my abilities. There's just something so magical about it.


For me, pictures will always be worth a countless amount of words. But the stories they tell and the feelings they create will forever be undescribable.

And that is why I must do all I can to capture them.