breath taking climb

I believe i can make the honest statement that i love pictures!!! I love capturing the smiles, the happy, fun, real emotion you see on peoples faces when they smile in a photo. maybe its just the beauty i see around me in the photo. For whatever reason it is i love pictures! Have you ever climbed a mountain or just been on a hike and taken your camera?  As you look back at the film for that trip you have the picture at the begining where eveyone is happy and really excited then we have the first water/resting break and onece again people are a lil hot and not as happy as when we started but they fudge a smile or two with some laughs. then things start to get hard you feel like your legs are jello and at any moment you might die from being so tired but your missing this moment in the film. No one cought that moment in time. why? We all like to take pictures at the top of the mountain, with happy faces, smiles, and some enthusiasim in them. We forget to take pictures along the way of what really matters and means the most to us, because who wants to remember the moments where its not all smiles and cheers? I dont!!! When i look back on things i have done in my life i see it all as a big room filled with albums apon albums of photos and moments that some i never want to forget and others i dont nessiceraly want to forget them but if given the chance to photoshop them a bit i might jump at the oppertunity! These last few months of my life i wouldnt say have been hard or difficult but just a lil overwhealming. I feel like i have been flooded with emotion and great oppertunity that i dont know what to do with it! I have grown as a indivitual and i think for me and others thats scary!  I think i can be as bold to say that i am not anymore the same girl i was in most of my photo albums of life. I think when myslef and others look at me they cant help but want to see the girl i was so long ago in that album! Its never easy to change or to make desicions on your own but it must be done. At times you must climb alone for a bit and make desicions that in the end have weighing results. Most of these things are not taken to lightly or go with out some tears and deep thought process. No one is a master at the art of photo taking, but we push ourselfs to be. we have to not because we like it. Its the relentless climb to the top of the mountain to get the picture that gets to us. the pain and anguish of taking things to the next level....i never take pictures of all that because i dont want to remember all that. I want to remember the moment at the top....the breath taking view at the edge of the world. Thats what keeps me climbing and its worth all the unwanted remembering part...ITS WORTH EVERYTHING!!!