It’s that time of year again. Summer is closing in and school’s everywhere are releasing the shackles on their students. Graduation ceremonies are now an every-day occurrence. I shot one last night (or well, a few hours ago really), and call me crazy, but I love shooting graduations. It may be because I’ve had good luck with them (won my first NPPA clip contest from a graduation photo story), but also because they are so inspirational. Graduations are full of cliches, but also of great quotes. And as stories are told by the senior class speakers and their teachers, it hits you how simple life really is. It’s not rocket science.
I’m three days away from my birthday and I feel it as a graduation of sorts. I’m another year older, and I’m looking back at everything I’ve learned since my last birthday (and oh boy, has it been a lot). Like a graduation, I’m flipping to the next chapter and embracing what’s to come (in the end, I hope my life reads like a Harry Potter novel). My graduation is full of its own words of wisdom. And right now, I’ve got something to say to myself, and it’s this: If I’ve learned anything these past few months (and few hours), it’s that we all make decisions, and after they are said and done, it’s not uncommon to wonder if we really did the right thing. Maybe we’ll regret it at first, think maybe we could have been wrong, and it might be a blow to the gut. But if you slow down and think back to why you did what you did, you’ll often find you had no other option. You did the only thing you could… and everything (everything) is gonna work out fine.
I woke up right now in the middle of the night (yes, I’m writing this at 3 a.m.), and thoughts (and coughs) have kept me awake. Laying in bed thinking about graduations made me think about yearbooks (yearbooks are great). I was the photographer for mine, years before I ever got into photography (funny how things work out). But anyway, I may be long done with school, but I still want a yearbook… so I’m going to make one. Drawing inspiration from yearbooks, scrapbooks, and Mike Terry’s beautiful hand-crafted journal, I’m going to make my own post-graduation yearbook - a year in the life of Sarah. And I’m starting with 2006 - to date the best year of my life (though no lies, 2007 is shaping up well). It was a beautiful year, and it’s going to be a beautiful yearbook.
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