contrast is what makes photography interesting.
– conrad hall
Like I have said before, I live in northwest Georgia just barely inside Georgia near Chattanooga, TN. Chattanooga is a great city…a beautiful city…and it is just the right size and offers a great mix of all things. It has great restaurants, several microbreweries, great museums, and amazing outdoor activities and scenery. After all that has been said, I still find myself often needing to remind myself how great this area is and that Chattanooga is beautiful. I wonder if that is the same for a lot of people, always thinking somewhere else would be a better or prettier place to live. I have lived other places, including New York City (and I love NYC)…and I could imagine other places that are similar to here in what they offer. I know we don’t have the largest mountains and places out west certainly have better scenery. I know that it gets unbearably hot here in the summer and the winters don’t usually include much snow, but I still also love it here. I have had a lot of time this summer to get outdoors, mostly mountain bike riding, and I have been reminded again that Chattanooga is beautiful. Of course, the downtown area and the bridges over the Tennessee river are most iconic, but there are cute neighborhoods surrounding downtown as well. Not too long ago (just a few months) I spent the day photographing the river bridges, and I need to go take pictures of some other landmarks and cute buildings and neighborhoods. I haven’t had the courage to go downtown since businesses and restaurants started reopening, but I really look forward to the point in time when things get further back to normal and I can go downtown again. There are so many places to visit and restaurants to try that I have never been to because they opened while I lived in New York City or after I moved back and I just haven’t been yet. The city has started to grow so much faster and new places open up far quicker than anyone can try them. I also look forward to taking pictures more and beginning to do sessions. I am going to do senior pictures for my nephew soon as a start to getting back into it.
