The Silver Lining

After two weeks of not having been out with my camera due to intensive working even on weekends, I took it upon myself to catch the last few remaining minutes of sunlight and reconnect myself with my camera. It was no easy task.

This shot was nearly impossible to save. The intentions were good but the preparations were non-existing. I should have brought a tripod and I should have changed the exposure. This shot came out the exact opposite of what I wanted it to be. Luckily my Lightroom skills are still intact, and after throwing away all the shots I took (they weren't that many, I was only out for a few minutes), I used a full hour on this, the only picture I chose to salvage, and tweaked all the possible settings I could tweak to bring out the picture I thought my eyes saw, and what remained inside my head as I rode the subway home. Bravo!

All work and no play, I feel, has set me back to the time when I couldn't find inspiration or motivation to do anything. I am just looking forward to when all of this extra working is done, when I once again can do what I want in the weekends to make me feel that I exist, and that I matter. Expensive as though it may be I feel my camera and I deserve a short vacation when this (work load) is through.

It's not over yet though, as I still have to work next weekend as well. But then that will be that. I can see the silver lining, the light at the end of the tunnel, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I gave it my all, and soon it will be time to start giving something back to myself again.