Live like a 35mm.

Me and one of my friends like to go on "photography adventures". We try to find a new place or go to a place we really like, walk around, take pictures, and take in the whole atmosphere. Before, I would have a digital SLR, which I would love because I could see the image right after I snapped the shutter. So if the lighting, shutter speed, etc. were off, I could adjust settings and get a better image. Well now, I'm using a film 35mm and it is going to take some getting use to. With this camera, I can't see the image after I take it. I can't quickly adjust settings to get a better image. And that, right there, bugs the stew out of me. I have to trust my instinct and knowledge of the camera, so that I can get the image that I want. But I won't see the end result until I pick it up the pictures from the photography store.

During learning how to adjust myself with the new camera, God has been teaching me a lesson through it all.

Like I have posted earlier, I'm the type of person who lines all my ducks in a row and wants to know what the future is going to hold. It's just like the digital SLR. Once I take a photo, I can see the end result and try to change it if I don't like it. But God has been telling me that life doesn't work like that. I can't see what's coming and then adjust my life to how I want it if I don't like what I see. There is no beauty, originality, or creativity in that.

I have to start living life like the 35mm. Live in the moments and hope/trust in God that everything will turn out beautiful. He knows what's going to be on the film of my life and knows the perfect settings to make all the moments unforgetable.

But the beauty in all this is that He let's me look through the eyepiece. Let's me plan how I want the picture to look like. But just because I adjust the settings to how I want them, doesn't mean the picture is going to turn out the way I want it. It might be a total disaster, or it just might be so much better than I ever expected. I just have to trust that God will smile with me when the picture turns out just right, the way He planned it, or be there to hold me when the adjustments I thought were right, fail. Philippians 4:6-7.