Wishes & Worry
What do you wish for? What do you worry about? What is it that weighs on your heart, reminding you throughout your day that it still exists. Perhaps it’s raising your children. Perhaps it’s caring for a loved one, or simply wishing dinner would magically appear tonight.
Translating those wishes and worries to a page can be difficult. The words might flow easily, as they exist at the surface of your being. Echoing through your brain in all you do.
How do you capture it photographically?
My four year old son, will enter kindergarten this year. My brain has been consumed with my wishes and worries for those next steps. After visiting a potential school last week I knew I had to write down what I was feeling. When he has his own children, I want him to know what I was feeling as I made such an important decision for him.
How do I photograph it? What tells the story? A photo of him? Maybe. That would be easy.

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And then I found it. The lion. Perched on my desk where he’d left it this morning. Part of the pride he likes to play with. Just this morning he’d insisted I hold the “momma lion” and he hold the baby. Dad got the “daddy lion.”
And that summed it up for me. Mamma lion. Protector. Defender. Nurturer. Mother. Always watching out for his well being.
50mm lens in hand, I placed it beside a window, got close, filled the frame and shot. A wide aperture blurred the background, making the lion the focus of the photo. I wanted this page to be about the story, about my wishes and worries. I wanted the story to compliment the page, not dominate it.  You can see Ian peeking above the folders though!

The photo doesn’t have to be obvious. It doesn’t have to be your subject. It can simply convey an emotion, a feeling, a part of what you’ve written.

What are your Wishes and Worries? How can you photograph them? Or perhaps grab a photo from your archives.

PLEASE, add your own pages of YOUR Wishes And Worries to the PageKraft: WriteTrue + Click gallery. Share how you chose the not so obvious photo to enhance your story. Let us know if you want creative, constructive feedback. I hope this PageKraft helps you to WriteTrue and Click