I watched the show Visionaries, the one on the Oprah Winfrey network about creative people, last night. It was a beautiful cap off of a very lazy weekend, in which I spent the entire three days on the couch watching movies I love as I attempted to get over a cold that has been coming on over the last couple of weeks.
The episode was about famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. I knew next to nothing about her (except that she was a photographer) before I started. The episode followed her around as she travelled the world in search of the photographs that meant something to her, for her book "Pilgrimage".
She was somewhere in England, I think at Alfred, Lord Tennyson's house, she explained that taking the photos for the book was "refilling her well" and that she was the well was very deep.
I was engrossed by some of the places she was taking photos, and watching her work with the subjects of her portraits. But more than that, it reminded me that I take photos because it is one of the ways I step away from my life as a lawyer at the end of the day. Slowly learning to take better photos is one of my favourite ways to refill my well.
photo: Dee, 2011. {early one morning last week with my point and shoot}
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