My Home.

I feel very lucky lately.  Not the kind of go out and buy a lottery ticket kind of lucky.  Rather, the I have a lot of good things in my life to be thankful for.  Each morning I wake up and stare at the beautiful blue waters of Lake Michigan and really am inspired by what each day brings.   I've had the constant desire to create...  I'm not sure if its connected to the fact that I've had the chance to travel a bunch recently, or maybe just because I'm surrounded by (or have come across) pretty cool and interesting people.  Just the other day I was shown a cool concept at work and my mind began to wander...  You can find the idea by clicking here:

 http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/looking-at-our-hometowns/?_r=0

The New York Times decided to ask high school teens to turn the cameras around on their hometowns and see what they would document under the directive of "My Hometown".  The concept was to create a documentary of America, all shapes and sizes, through the combination of the various participants' photographs of their neighborhoods/communities. 

I love the idea.  The words "My Hometown" mean such different things to all of us and visually they would all be represented in such unique ways.  How often do we take time to think about our lives and our communities and even see them through a different lens? I was inspired to go out and see what I could compile thinking about this idea of "My Home".  It helps that I've had a recent fascination/obsession with photography and my newish amazing camera.  While this entry may be short on words I hope that it at least provides all that words cannot express.

Here is My Home: