Happy Holidays to many of you and Happy New Year to all of you!
Another year has almost passed and yes, it is hard to believe. And in the passing of still another year, I was witness, once again, to the one certainty of life and that certainty is change! Change is responsible for great light, colorful sunrises, frosty mornings and vivid October colors.
Change is the reason for so much joy and change is also the reason for so much suffering. Change is inevitable. Change is life. Embracing change is easy when it walks with us side by side, favoring our hopes and dreams, but seldom is it easy when change seems to turn on us, like a wild swing of a baseball bat, sending us to our knees!
The good news, (or bad); change seldom sticks around for lengthy periods; just look at the seasons. The seasons bear witness to the ‘promise’ that things will change.
Change has given me hope and change has brought me despair. I have lived many days where hope is running at a fever pitch but I have also lived many a day where hope is under the siege of a very high fever.
In the face of change, and all of its wonder, I have learned a valuable lesson that has served me well in my constant search for photographic excellence; to be as rigid as the mighty oak when it comes to maintaining my focus on the task at hand but to always be as flexible as the mighty willow, because my hopes and dreams will surely be tested by whatever changes may come my way.
As another year closes and a new one is about to begin, I wanted to take this moment to say again, THANK YOU, to all of my friends and followers here on Facebook for enriching my life in ways that you are not even aware of and thanks most of all for sharing your love of photography with me via your emails, texts, participation at my on-line school and in my on location workshops around the world. As photographers we are indeed fortunate to be in a position to capture the fleeting moments of change, moments that bear witness to the promise of change- that change is constantly changing. ‘You Keep Shooting’-Please!
This is a small village in Beaujolais, France, the village of Saint Laurent d’Oingt.
Over the course of twelve months I returned to the same exact spot, four times and shot the village you see here in all four seasons. What a learning experience this proved to be!
Nikon D300S, Nikkor 70-300mm at 300mm, F/22 @ various shutter speeds depending on the light and season, ISO 200 for all four, WB was set to Cloudy for all four.
– BPSOP Founder: Bryan F Peterson
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