i never see you like i want to

i want to skip town.

i want to take my cameras on the road.
there's a road that follows alongside the interstate.
that's the road i would take.
there's so many places i've wanted to photograph on the way to Disney World.
so many broken down gas stations.
so many old, old houses with trees growing in them.
so times i've wanted to scream STOP so i could run out and take one quick shot.

photography has always been a pure joy thing for me.
the action of taking a photograph is everything.
when i was a little kid and had my Little Tikes camera, i took as many pictures as i could.
i snuck it to school a few times.
a lot of those roles of film were lost and never even developed.
i don't know what happened to the ones my mom did get developed.
i didn't care.
i just liked looking through the viewfinder, pressing the shutter, and rolling to the next frame of film.

once, i had a really small purple "spy" camera that i won at a carnival or something.
it was such a piece of crap that it didn't even have batteries.
it was just a spring activated shutter and a wheel for rolling film.
i don't think i ever put film in it.
but you can bet i kept it with me a lot.
just looking through the viewfinder and pretending to take pictures.

i love looking at things.
i like noticing how beautiful every fucking thing on the face of this earth is.
i have so many pictures of garbage saved on my computer.
i hate pollution but, i must admit, it can really look amazing.
all i'm ever trying to do when i point a camera at anything is capture a fraction of the beauty that i see.
people, places, animals, inanimate objects, walls, water, weather, anything and everything in my line of vision.

i need to start going on walks again.

i really do want to skip town for a few days.
gas prices are low enough to warrant a road trip.
and i have this awesome new camera that gets pretty close to my own view of the world.
who's up for it?