This week’s theme is Transient. Now, “transient” is something I had to look up online even though I often think that I speak better English these days than I do Russian, my mother tongue (a few years back, I had to look up “nimble”, which then made part of our corporate strategy. Speaking of which, corporate strategies in tech are indeed transient but I don’t happen to have a photo of one of them on hands).

Now that I know what transient is (which is “not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory”), I have immediately thought of a picture to illustrate it. I took this photo of a girl jumping off the cliff in Kythira, a magical island in Greece, a few weeks ago. The girl was contemplating this jump for quite some time, stumbling, looking unsure into the dark blue water at her feet and her family at the shore. And then she jumped – into the dark blue water and into the freedom. I was as unsure that she would do it as she was herself and, for some reason, was moved by the outcome of this short story – and by the fact that I could capture it with my 50 1.2 lens, which is not exactly the number one choice for action photography. 

Sometimes the world offers us much better shots that we could be dreaming to orchestrate. We should just be there to capture them.

🙂