Teaching Kids to Take Photographs

Teaching kids to take photographs
When you're not really sure yourself
It’s more a way of looking at things.
Cradling images in your hand
Feeling the weight of a frame
A picture at the beach when you were young
Hair dappling across your forehead
Sticky from the saltwater
A towel draped around your neck
Looking into the camera

Take that moment, let it sit there with you
Decode its meaning
Feel the result in your gut
Reactions and emotions are all we have
Let’s use them as tools
To write a treatise
On why we’re alive