March 19 - Day 18

I am telling you that this fast has been one of the hardest for me.  Today was another day of challenging self restraint.  There was more food wafting through the room that I was displaying my work and for some reason those white burger buns are my weekness.  If I was ever questioned under threat of torture all they would have to do is stick those buns under my nose.  After looking at them for about 2 minutes I hid them in the other room that I was displaying my work, and that was a load of my plate.  I sort of felt like God was having a bit of a joke with me to be honest, he was up there looking down and enjoying the moment, and to be honest with you, I found it kind of funny too.  Here I was tempted by these white buns, white bread with absolutely no nutritional value, and it would have been for nothing if I had broken my fast.

So today my reward was biting in to a scrumptious (probably not as good as I thought, but I was hungry) cheeseburger after the sun set.  It felt so good to be able to overcome my basic hunger cravings.  I know that there are many people who probably think this is so basic but for me the struggle has been about getting through the hours, especially this time around.  It helped that I had to concentrate on shooting hockey pictures though, and time moved forward as it always does.

And with that my image is a hockey shot.  Today the only type of pictures I took were hockey pictures. When you take hundreds of pictures during a tournament you end up with many similar images, even when you are shooting images that most hockey photographers aren't, you still come up some of the same stuff.  But sometimes you take an image that just makes you pause.  I sometimes wonder if parents will even see some of the images I (or the other photographer who shoots with me) take, because if they don't take a look the images will usually end up in a dusty hard drive.  But I guess when a picture does capture a moment and it does tell some a story just right then it gets viewed.  This image was like that.