Missed Opportunity

Like many others, I feel most comfortable photographing people or areas that I know well. I could photograph my family or my boyfriend in any situation and not really care if they don’t want to be photographed, or are irritated with me sticking a camera in their face, because I know them well. There have been so many times I have used public transportation and have caught someone in a moment and would have loved to have that image printed and remembered forever. Unfortunately I was too much of a coward to do so. I have been living in New York for three years with out a car, and have been traveling home to South Jersey for holidays and long weekends ever since I began attending Hofstra. I literally must have taken the LIRR into the city and the NJ Transit bus from port authority into Atlantic City over 100 times, and not once have I taken a single photograph on neither the bus nor the train. Looking back on it, this seriously is a disgrace. There have been so many sleepy passengers and so many screaming children and so many messy eaters that would have made AWESOME photos, and I totally missed out on it. I just recently purchased a car over the winter break and now I feel like those trips home on the bus will always be in the past, and I have nothing to remember them by.