I have never really believed in taking photos, not in the way that most people these days take them--which is of everything and all the time.

When you take a photo to remember a moment, your brain is less likely to remember that experience because you have a safety net, a photo, to remember it for you, so your brain discards it. I would rather experience a moment first hand and remember it later (or forget it) than have a photo memory that I can look at later, but is a memory solely filtered through a lens because I was too preoccupied with taking a picture.

In the past few months I have found photography. It's more than taking photos--it is the art of framing a moment and creating an experience. The best photography exists in between moments and I found photography in the moments that I wouldn't remember anyway.

So here is my photo journey of deciding photography has a place in my life--pre-camera, during the iPhone age.

And like all great stories, it started will a goat, a wildflower, and a very bored teenager.