You can stand in the same spot looking at the same scene, and have a different experience depending on what's in your hands. The process in analog and digital couldn't be more different. And yet the art of noticing shows up either way.

There's a word for the urge to freeze a moment you know is already leaving. I found it, naturally, while going down a rabbit hole of words. Then I went for a walk with my camera, put it away, and somehow still managed to overthink the whole thing. This is that.

Staring up at the night sky, I think: just here floating through space on a spinning rock, casually identifying stars as if that is a normal Tuesday activity. And then I imagine sailors doing something similar, except with far more at stake.