Why? Why? Why?

When asked:
-why I like photography and videography?
-why carry your big heavy camera around all the time?
-why do you spend so much time editing?
-why do you take so many photos/videos (taking up hard drive space)?

The word comes to mind:

NOSTALGIA

How does nostalgia motivate me to want to do all these things?
For me, there’s nothing stronger than the emotions that flood my mind when photos/videos trigger memories from when they were taken.
We are so lucky to be living in a time where a flick of a finger can swipe through dozens of photos/videos on a phone or even pages in a physical album.
It can transport your memory weeks, months, or years into the past.
We often fantasize about those memories and long for those days - while sometimes not appreciating what’s going on in the present.

I take these photos/videos because one day, they will be considered “good old days” and bring on the feeling of nostalgia to somebody else.

Fortunately, my parents cared and made the effort to develop a lot of film photos and carry around a big heavy camcorder while I was growing up. Now I am able to experience through someone else’s eyes some “good old days”. As my older sisters and I have moved out of our parent’s house, married and having children of their own, it only gets harder to plan and spend time together as a whole family.

Summer 2018 - We all were able to vacation at Disney World together - a destination we frequent traveled to when we all were younger.
This time we experienced Disney World as grown up adults through the eyes and ears of three babies under the age of 4. It’s not until you watch and compare the captured footage to my dad’s recordings decades ago, how similar, if not the same it seems to be.

If I can leave a legacy behind - it would be my photos/videos that I create - hoping to spark the feeling of “the good old days”.

I had made this video in the Summer of 2018 - encapsulating these feelings I’ve had for years, but never got to share it.
I’ve made my family cry and have all sorts of emotions after watching this - that’s more valuable to me than any Facebook/Instagram “likes” I can ever get in the world.
Hope you all enjoy too.

I had made this video in the Summer of 2018 but never got to share it.