Florida Pier

I have never had a photo evoke such an emotional response for me like this one. 

When my sister-in-law asked me to take some photos of the lakes around her house in Windemere Florida, my first thought was something like this.

While I was shooting this, every time I would take a photo and preview it on my camera, I realized I kept picturing what it would feel like in the photo. For instance, what it might feel like to walk the pier, sit on the bench, and gaze out onto the open lake. What kinds of life reflections would I have on that bench? It was almost like I was in the photo. This got me thinking about what kind of emotional responses that might come from looking at this. When I get old, I may look at this photo with my wife and say to her, "remember the sunsets we saw on that bench and the conversations we had, remember the wind in our hair and the reflections of the clouds off the water we saw." If I grew up near here, I may look at this and think, "remember when I used to fish off this pier, swim in the lake, and do cannonballs off the pier." 

Sometimes pictures aren't just art, but something that demonstrates to us what it is to be human.