on photography

When they see me picking up my camera, or my phone, to take a picture for the twentieth time that day, my children have been known to ask me: 'why do you take photographs all the time?'

I take photographs because I often see the world, even if it's just in my mind's eye, through the lens of a camera.

I take photographs because I am on a constant quest to improve my photography skills.

I take photographs because it allows me to see beauty in the simplest and most familiar things.

I take photographs because they are my way of noticing, and of recording, small but precious moments.

I take photographs because photography is, for me, an act of everyday mindfulness.

I take photographs because doing so has become a necessity, perhaps even a compulsion:

I take photographs because it makes me happy.