"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Thoreau from Walden

I accidentally did this to one of my pictures while trying to recover it from being well under exposed. It reminded me of ink drawings I used to do when I just got into college. In fact I would mistake it for one if I didn't know better. It gave me an urge to dig out my old sketch books. I found myself looking at how far I had come since then. In a ten year old notebook I had written several quotes from Andreas Deja that I had heard from a documentary on the making of the Little Mermaid. Funny that he was at my work just a couple of weeks ago giving the animators tips.

I could never afford a camera back then. I drew everything, which was an adventure in itself, but once in a while I wish I could go back and hand that me a camera just to see what pictures he would take. I wonder what I would think of my pictures from now back then.

I would venture to guess that I would be really excited by what I have managed to do and equally disappointed that I wasn't out photographing right now and every moment.