Last month while in Cambodia, my team had the opportunity to visit The Angkor Wat Temples. We walked around all day exploring the beautiful temples, even saw different spots where the movie Tomb Raider was filmed and drum roll please…… road elephants:) my favorite part of the day for sure!
While there I wrote a short little blog and didn’t want it to go to waste, even if it is a couple weeks late..
It is 5:30 in the morning (Christmas evening for those of you in the states) and im surrounded by people huddled together all trying capture the same thing.. a perfect picture of the temple as the sun rises from behind. I take my head phones out for a brief moment, expecting silence but grumbling from strangers fill the air. Everyone has something to complain about.. Other people’s flashes, the random tourist getting in their shot, even the lack of red in the sun rise. I quickly put Taylor Swift back into my ears. I give it several attempts, trying to get that award winning picture, one different from the hundreds of people around me but the iphone just wont cut it.
I take a step back and put the camera away. I want to spend my time seeing and not from behind a lens.
Walking back to get a wider angle, my focus switches and I begin to notice so much beauty, beauty not found in the sunrise, flowers or temple… It is the people. It is the friendships. The families. Its God’s greatest creation. His image.. All around me. The longer I look the louder it is. The variety. The detail.
The masterpiece in each individual person and everyday if you take time to notice you can see thousands of unique pieces of work. And… as the sun hits just the right spot the people don’t seem to mind the small problems, the mood lightens and people are in awe. There, that’s the perfect picture.. Gods people enjoying his beautiful work in the company of one another, that’s a image I wish I could have captured.
