I've been struggling with consistency since the start of the pandemic, but I have become enthralled with photography over the past few years. For me, it's not just about the finished product of a great picture, but the process, the journey that happens between picking up the camera and seeing a photo at a later point. Ansel Adams has some great musings on this experience. When you hold a camera and walk around, your focus turns to what you see. It's a different type of vision because the mind quiets. Some of my best people watching happens when I shoot, because I become hyperaware of the reality unfolding around me. Even if a particular moment is never recorded by the camera, the experience you gain stays with you. That landscape is forever seared into your brain, that interaction between strangers duly noted, the emotion of facing off with a wild animal forever imprinted. I think I enjoy photography so much because it makes me a more understanding and compassionate human. If one out of every thousand pictures I capture invokes some semblance of the feeling I experienced while taking it, for just a few people out there, then I feel fulfilled with my contribution. So much of how we see affects our internal evolution, which in turn affects our interactions with others, and thus the state of the world. Photography is seeing, and shared seeing is the genesis of a gentler universe.