Throughout all of my extensive travel this year I keep facing the issue that I only feel like I experience my trips once I am able to process the photos I take.
On previous trips I have forced myself to set the camera aside and try and only experience them in the moment, but I found that was incredibly fleeting and unsatisfying in the long run. Leaving me ultimately just ignoring or allowing most of the events to fade away in my mind for the most part unnoticed and unprocessed. I find when I look back at my images though I have a second experience of those moments which often feels like I missed out on what happened in some way. Perhaps this is natural and the photos are simply tools for helping us reflect, and that’s why people love taking photos so much.
My concern is though that I don’t really know how to have a “real” experience in the moment. In the back of my mind I suspect that this may have to do with growing up a tv and video game child where I had most of my experiences in two dimensions.
Perhaps the answer is Improv classes so that I can learn to better live in the moment.
