The Narration Crackles and Pops With Incendiary Wit

"This isn't legal.  There's a burn ban in effect.  We're in a drought."

"I don't care, I'm tired of living with you and keeping all this shit around just...out."

"I'm trying to pack it all up.  I just keep getting distracted."

"Bullshit."

"I am-"

"I'm doing you a favor.  I'm doing us a favor.  Having all this crap around is depressing, so we're burning it."

"I don't like this."

"Tough shit.  You had plenty of time to pack it up and move on with your life.  But you kept it out here and let it trap you.  Not anymore.  We got places to go, and I'm not going to sit around while you wait for her to come back.  Its over."

"These are....mine though."

"You'll get new ones.  Better ones.  Ones that let you get out of the goddamn dark."

A glob of fog is thrown into the bonfire.  The flames flicker green, purple and blue than back to yellow and orange.  For an instant, the smoke forms a couple holding hands than dissipates into the air.  

"Time to move on and not look back." 

Another memory is thrown in the fire, and the flames shoot up around it.  The truth of it is revealed than burned away forever.   

"Its better this way."

It Starts Like This...

"It starts with this: put your desk in a corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It's the other way around."
- Stephen King


This is where I'm going to start writing again. Every day, if I can. Fiction, non-fiction or just quick journal posts. I've fancied myself a writer for a long time, but ever since about half-way through college, I suddenly found myself being more the photographer rather than the writer.

Don't get me wrong, my already amazing audience, I really love photography. But, its gotten to the point where it is really too easy for me to take a picture, have people go 'Ohh' and 'Ahh' and call myself an artist or even creative. Photography is a simple art to get good in - it really is. Especially digital photography, when you can take thousands of images and pick only a small handful to actually show people.

If people knew how many photos I take to get that single, amazing image, I probably would not get as much respect for being an amazing photographer as I do. Because, in all reality, I'm not really that great. I'm good - probably better than most, but am I great?

Not yet.