If you’re a subscriber here, you know that I always share nature photography on Sundays. I have an even more frequent rhythm on social media. Nature photography has become one of my biggest hobbies, and I take photos and share them to social media daily. “Today in Nature,” I call it. This has become a meaningful practice in my life.
From time to time, I’ll be in a community setting somewhere, and someone will say, “How do you do this every single day? How do you have the time?” I think people imagine that I’m hitting the trails and parks every single day.
In the summer, I am a little like that, I’ll admit. But in the colder part of Fall and Winter, and sometimes in the spring and summer too, let me just share that a lot of these photos are what I’ll call, “parking lot shots.”
That’s often the case, literally. I’m at, say, Target, and I find a really beautiful, tiny piece of nature to capture. Or I’m walking from my car to the building where I work, and I notice something. Or I’ve come home, and I see something pretty in my driveway.
You don’t have to hit the trails and the parks to find beauty, and I think if we look for it intentionally, we develop an eye for it. We can find it almost anywhere.
Smuggling Grace 