Lost in the Current of You (Lost in Love Book 1) by Zoe Grace Douglas

Author:Zoe Grace Douglas [Douglas, Zoe Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

19

I’d thought a lot about how I saw my future the past week, more than I ever had since going through the photos and the present from Nate.

All the times I held the camera up to my eye, there was an ever-present smile on my face. I loved looking through the lens and focusing on what I was capturing. Whether it was the landscape, wildlife, or people, I loved seeing the beauty and trying to unravel the emotions and thoughts of the people I snapped photos of. It felt like something I could delve into, to tell stories through a single snapshot.

It kick-started an excitement that I had been longing for.

I searched all different avenues of photography, interviews with photographers, and searching their portfolios. Then I went on to see the academic avenues, the study programs for photography, what it involves, and if it was necessary.

Dinner the next night, I brought it up with Dad very vaguely. Just a thought thrown in the air.

“What do you think about photography as a career?”

Dad chewed on the bite he had just taken of the honey soy chicken he made, giving him time to mull over the question. “I’ve never really thought about it. But I guess if you’re passionate about it and it makes you happy,” he shrugged. “Why not? There’s a lot of famous photographers and I’m sure there’s a lot of different paths you can take with it.”

I nodded, absorbing his words as I took a bite of my own chicken.

His knife and fork clattered on his plate as he turned toward me, squeezing my shoulder. “Anything you do, I’m going to be proud of, chook. You don’t need to ask me. I’ll support you in whatever you do. In whatever you need.”

I couldn’t stop the slight watering of my eyes. All it took was Dad’s words of encouragement to soothe my spiralling thoughts and anxiety. He was so opposite to my mother that I wondered how they even ended up together, and why they married. Dad was like a cool ocean breeze that made you breathe a bit easier. Mum was like wildfire, threatening the structures of the building you’ve worked hard to build. I could see it working for a short time, but nothing could contain my mother.

But it had been a week and I hadn’t touched those photos, since that day with Reece. I’ve been putting it off since thinking more seriously about it. I’d thought on more than one occasion that I wasn’t even good enough to make photography a career. That maybe it was just a fun little hobby to take under to remember my friends by, knowing they would be moving away. Anyone could snap a photo, it wasn’t anything special.

Maybe Reece and Dad were just trying to appease me. Dad has to say nice things because he’s my dad. Reece, well, I don’t know. We’ve been texting on and off since that day but he hasn’t mentioned wanting those photos since. I’ve been avoiding it, nerves biting at me anytime I thought about sending them.

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