Everyone is given a chance at least once, some of us are given a second chance.

Everyone is given a chance at least once, some of us are given a second chance.
Alas the hard part is understanding what the chance was.



A Chance is an opportunity to do some great thing, many times as a photographer I have started a project or session and found myself elsewhere than what or where I believed I was going. For years I fought this wondering aspect of shooting images, trying to stay in control of the goal. The more I try to take charge the more I loose the goal.



Once lost the goal is forever allusive to be framed, scold myself to see the ending has never been enough to get there.



Alas for me, forever to repeat. To rewrite, reshoot, restart the process. Thus is the idea behind a goal. Goals focus my thought on the shiny little end.



When I step back I see the flow of chance in my work, that moment, that person, the smile I see chance. Chance teaches to look not at the goal but the journey we are on. To be given the opportunity to see that twice is the understanding.