Two years ago I started a photography based blog and wandered over the internet looking for inspiration and help with my photography. One site would lead to another and I grew to truly understand why this world was called “the web”. Every once and awhile I would timidly reach out with a comment to a photographer that I particularly liked and wanted to emulate. Char was one of those photographers that not only inspired me but reached back out to me and encouraged me in many gentle ways. When her sudden and untimely death was reported and discussed throughout the blogging world I was stuck with sadness as many others were…In fact I was surprised how deeply saddened I was, after all I had never met her face to face nor seen a picture of her. This led me to think about the nature of these internet friendships…what are they made of…what makes us connect? I have learned that these friendships are real enough to suffer loss when a tie is broken. Char made it easy to connect to because she wrote so well that her kindness and humor stood out and because she made an extra effort to do so. Like many others I will miss her and will try to remember her through the words she used on her profile…
”life is too short to waste a single day: eat cookies, dance when no one is looking, and try to be as happy as you can.”
…and I will think of her every time I take a photo of flowers in an old blue jar.
