INSTAGRAMS

Ever since my new iPhone has a better camera, and ever since I have discovered Instagrams application, i can't stop clicking away at the things I see around me that I know I will regret if I don't capture and immortalise on my camera phone. Sometimes Ill be carrying a million things and Ill see that thing that catches my eye and ill try to walk away but i can't so ill fumble through my bag to grab my phone and click away even if its at a completely inappropriate place or time and in the middle of the road and I'm blocking traffic or whatever.
I took about fifty pictures on the day I went to the farm to get all my stuff for my rabbits and i had a long walk laden with two giant heavy bags of hay, bags of heavy food, and a new bed and treats etc --- REALLY HEAVY and bulky and inconvenient. And of course I had to see five million things I need to take a picture of ---- it wasn't just the things you can walk by it was the kind of things that were made to be photographed for example the yellow door with the cat --- before I saw that i was like OKAY NO MORE PICTURES NO MORE INTERESTING PHOTO-WORTHY SIGHTS NO MORE LET THE REST OF MY JOURNEY BE BORING AND UNINTERESTING and when I saw the completely idyllic perfect and cliche image of the yellow door and cat - like literally a scene that was made not for reality but for paintings and photographs - I was like 'OH COME ON SERIOUSLY!??!?" and then physically could not walk away -- so for the tenth time in the space of ten minutes I dumped my stuff on the floor whipped out the iPhone and clicked clicked clicked till I got the perfect image.
Maybe it just goes to show that, when you're looking around you, when you are aware of what surrounds you, you will find all the things worth looking at, whether you are looking for them or not. And I can't not look, I can't close my eyes and just walk by not noticing the world. Bags to carry or not. And I would love to make the beautiful sunsets last, but they don't, all I have is the image in my mind that fades, and the memory of the feeling it gave me to see it in real life, and the image from my iPhone - though its never the same as seeing it for real its always best to live life through your eyes and your five senses rather than only through a camera lens where you're capturing the image always but missing the reality of it itself. Its best to live it, and if you have a chance, after you give yourself a moment to appreciate it, you capture it and document the image of how it looked, or record how it sounded, and when you look at this next time, on top of all the rest, it will tickle that memory of how it felt to really experience that.

So these are my instagram shots of so far.