i do like to take pictures. i have a few posted in my profile from a trip out west. but i am a little ambivalent about it. my personality and temperment is such that i don't just snap one off, but spend alot of time composing and thinking about the shots. as such, i can sometimes find myself seperated from the nature i am there to experience, by the pane of glass represented by the camera lens. there is nothing worse than finishing a day outside, but feeling like you were watching it all through a window.

so sometimes, i limit myself to a couple of photographic "sessions". the rest of the hike, i just remind myself, "you can never capture and possess this, really. just experience it. let it soak into your bones. and you will carry it with you more surely than any photograph."