I took this picture out our bedroom window during sunset last week. Is it a remarkable picture? Not really. Technically brilliant? Nope (didn’t compose the shot to not include part of our house on the right nor did I crop it out). I do like the color and how it lights the bottom of the cloud though.

So what makes this picture part of the 52 Week Project? I just finished up Donald Miller’s book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Words and this quote from page 58 floored me:

“What I’m saying is I think life is so staggering and we’ve gotten used to it. We all are spoiled children no longer inspired with the gifts we’re given – it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.” (pg. 58)

How many shots have I passed up because it’s “just another sunset” or “just another sunrise” or “a nighttime picture of the moon and the stars over one of the lakes in BWCA last year because I was too lazy to get out the tripod I had dragged around with me for four days?”

I’m getting a headache thinking of the photographs I’ve passed up for pathetic excuses.

Exposure: 1/60 sec, Aperture: f/10.0, Focal Length: 28mm, ISO 200