Week 2: For the Love of it All

Okay, so I warned a few of you that I would post this lovely picture of Gilly in a blog, and sure enough, here it is. Last weekend, I went to the beach with Gilly and Leota. It was a hot, beautiful day-perfect for the beach. Now I LOVE the beach, so it's no wonder I want to talk about this picture in our Love themed blog. But there are many reasons I chose this picture.

First off, like I said, I love the beach, but I also love spending time with my friends at the beach, and this day encapsulated that. There's nothing quite like eatin' tacos, laying out on the beach for hours, jumping and diving through waves with friends, and topping a day off with a delicious milk shake. YUM. So the day was truly lovely.

But this picture-- this is our lovely Gilly, doing a beautiful passé on the reflective, wet sand. I love how bright the sun is, and that it's casting two shadows--how cool is that? I was pretty confused by it, but thinking about how large the sun is and the amount of light coming from it, it's not hard too hard to understand (though I am still a bit baffled...). More importantly, this sun is flaring up my iPhones camera lens, and I LOVE it. I know sun flares are not ideal, but I truly love when you can see the suns rays pouring down in a picture. Not to mention, you can actually see the sun's warm and cool tones at work in this picture. Those rays, coupled with Gilly's  beautiful pose and the reflective water, makes the energy in this picture pour out. It's very warm and happy, and quite relaxed actually; there's an energetic serenity that comes out of this picture, and I love that contradiction. 

I love the beach, I love my friends, I love the sun, I love dance, I love this picture. SO. MUCH. LOVE. SO much that I can overlook the crooked horizon... -_-