Friday, October 20, 2017

Wednesday's With Susan | Behind The Scenes

I'm currently listening to some sort of soft jazz from a playlist I found on Spotify (of which I am obsessed with. Call it what you may, but the colder months were made for jazz in my opinion), the cats are flopping around on the carpet and running into the walls, and I have found myself reading an article on how to travel with a baby under one... I dunno, I just really like the blog it's from.

It even has a minimalist baby packing list... And 35 travel tips.

And, if you're wondering, you can find it all by clicking here. You know. Just in case.
  

Anyway, for this post, I wanted to share some behind the scenes photos from this shoot with my cat.  

I tend to create concept photos on Wednesdays, or at least I try to maintain a schedule like that, and actually, it's been proving to be quite a useful thing as I get used to it. I don't know, I didn't think a "creative timetable" would work for me, but it has definitely been beneficial; if only for it being something to look forward to during the week. Still, sometimes I create whenever the moment calls for it. I like to move when inspiration directs, although admittedly, that doesn't always happen (hence the schedule). Which is exactly why I write down my ideas. You know, so I can waist time by second guessing myself and all that, but still have the idea tucked away somewhere.

It's a useless stage that I'm trying to skip.

But recently, I've been determined to go through those idea books, filled with my past scribbles (hard to decipher, but I like to think that it's somehow part of the inspiration), and create from them that which I thought I couldn't do. Ah, yes, there it is: Couldn't. What a horrible word. If anyone came to me and said they couldn't do something they dreamed of, I would tell them the opposite is truer than they think and to just try, just make a first move and let go of self imposed perfection. But somehow I have a harder time telling that to myself.

It seems, though, that the change of season has brought me back in a way. It always does. And now I am creating with these things in mind, that I indeed can, as God has shown me, as it was with this photo. My Wednesday with Susan photo.

Poor Susan.





In hindsight, I can see many things. I suppose life will always be that way. I am never all that I wish I could be. And if I was to be anything, I assumed I was supposed to be whatever that was right now. 

Kind of crazy as I think of it.

There is ambience to this life, weight to unmeasured moments, joy in the slowness, the everyday, the now; and I can miss the music of what is in front of me, of life as it comes, if I rush, if I let crawl over me the beauty that is of the now, if I tumble through the days without looking for what can be in the time given, without recognizing each moment as a gift from our heavenly Father.

Something God has been teaching me in my recent devotions is to bloom where you are planted. To work, do, walk, with Him, in the now, where we are, here, in each our circumstance. As Joseph did in Egypt. As I should here, where God has seen fit to place me, for this moment.

So with that, I leave you with these images of pure rejection below from when the nap was rubbing off ( I stole her away from it you see, so as to use the drowsiness as my advantage), and some of the photos I used in the end composite above. 

Oh and Happy October you guys! 









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