Killing the Beauty

Since I live here, I would say over 50% of the pictures I have taken these past 6 months have been at Firwood. Not a bad place to have to take a lot of pictures. However, unfortunately the view doesn't change too often. Somedays its cloudy, somedays it's clear, some days it's really foggy and we can't see much of anything. But no matter what, when I look outside I always see the lake and those hills across the way. It always looks generally the same. I know, I'm feeling bad for myself because I live on the lake and it's really beautiful everyday. Poor Kile. But since it's always the same view everyday, I end up having a lot of the same pictures stored on my computer. I have way too many shots of sailboats, docks, the lake and the hills. Some days there are clouds off beyond the hills, some days it's brighter than others, in the fall there were more colors than right now, but generally, its always what you see in the picture above. I try different angles, different times of day, different seasons, different spots on the waterfront, yet in the end, they all look fairly similar. In the photographer in me sense, I am getting a little sick of it. It's a lot like when I first started shooting 5 years ago, I only really took pictures of sunsets. Why? because they are really easy to take pictures of and get quality images. Whether someone is a pro, an amateur or the iphone guy, taking a quality sunset shot is pretty simple. Just point at the pretty colors. Since the only good photos I had were of sunsets, I found myself always going to Boulevard and Zuanich parks every night on the waterfront trying to recapture the beauty. After a year or so of this, I realized all my pictures were basically the same. Images of some park set with a background of an amazing Bellingham sunset. I ended up diluting the beauty by overshooting it. Wouldn't you know it, same thing here at camp. Everyday I walk to my car, see the view and think today's picture might just look a little different. So I take out the camera, point it in the same direction I always do and hope that for some inexplainable reason, the picture will show itself to be completely different than the one from yesterday. Nope. Living in a beautiful place has resulted in me having a lot of identical pictures of the same beautiful thing. I guess that's all I am trying to say. You should start to feel bad for me now.