“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”

• Audrey Hepburn

Well this was a COLD photograph to take. I had delivered some photos the night before and had shot the centered tree and drove past the observation tower at the Wetlands in Hennepin. I committed myself to going back the next night and taking a sunset photo just to test it out for future photo shoots. Although I think I will skip out on taking any storm or lightning related photos as it is a ginormous steel tower sticking out on the prairie like a beacon for lightning. Those storm photos will not be shot from that perch high up over the wetlands as the results could be electrifying.

I have always said only you control your happiness. Only you are in charge of  your destiny. Anything you do that keeps you from being happy or moving forward in life is by your own doing and your own fault. So taking photographs makes me happy, so climbing that dizzying circular staircase carrying equipment in the dark was done because it makes me happy. Trust me when I say this, I take photographs for me first. Does not matter the subject, the photos are taken because I like to do it. The fact that you like them or want to buy them is secondary. It is why I really need a person who can run the business and me to just take photos and edit them. If only I could find and PAY for such a person. Some day perhaps.

I loved setting up for this image, even if I did freeze my ass off. The blue hour, with that thin band of color. Science lesson for the day, that color is caused by the light actually traveling longer through the atmosphere due to the angle of the sun relative to your position. That is why the sunsets and sunrises have color. I enjoy watching them as much as photographing them. I see quite a few photos of sunrises and sunsets posted as compared to high noon photos. The reason, we enjoy the color. Stop and enjoy the light show the universe puts on, it is quite spectacular. If you believe in that thing called Love, sit with that loved one and enjoy a quiet moment with each other. Remember, your texts and emails and phone calls and lord knows what other distractions you have are really not that important. Enjoying life is, take a few minutes every day and enjoy!