Losing the sun at Loblaws

Say goodnight, Masonville
London, ON
November 2019
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Scene from a parking lot, take 794.

By now it should be plainly obvious how I feel about photography. As much as I'd like to capture every moment with a brilliance that merits its own spot on a museum wall, the sad truth is photography, like life, doesn't unfold so crisply.

There's a lot of ordinary in between the brilliance, countless moments, like this one in a supermarket parking lot, where you're stuffing groceries into the back of the car, you're tired and cranky after another long day keeping the weight of the universe from tipping over, and all you have is a smartphone in your pocket.

So you take the picture, anyway, because remembering it with mediocrity seems to beat not remembering it at all.

And when you string all these lousy photos together, you end up tracing the path of a life, too. Lots of ordinary. Even more mediocrity. Perhaps some flashes of occasional brilliance. None of it predictable. Or even remotely perfect. Or museum-worthy.

But you try to remember it, anyway. Because if we waited for the perfect moment, with the perfect camera, and the perfect conditions, to capture the resonance of the sun setting on a mid-November evening, we'd never be able to tell the story, at all.

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