Growing up, the thing I remember most is the amount of photos we used to take. I remember my mom taking out the camera and having my brother and I pose on the front porch of the first house we lived in. I remember the once-in-a-while days where we finally got along and then the snap of a shutter would catch us off guard and send us back to our sibling battles.
What I remember now is different than the things I remembered back then.
Photography to me is more than just capturing an aesthetically pleasing photo. Its about the little mundane moments that come out when you least expect it. Its even about the moments you expect, just told from someone else's emotions.
It's being able to tell a story using emotions of not only the main event, but also through the people that live through it with you. That's my why.
In 20 years when you look back on the photos and memories told, do you want to remember the moment as you remembered it back then?
Or do you want to see the whole picture? How the story unfolded through mom's eyes, or how dad couldn't stop crying the whole time. The flowers and how the light hit them juuuuuuuuuust right at 5pm that day. Or maybe how the kids loved playing with the fish in the pond out front. The unseen moments, from start to end.