blog - Brian Bennett Photography

Hey, I'm Brian Bennett! Sometimes I take pictures, play music, read books, drink a lot of ice coffee, and oh yeah, most recently I've been jotting down my musings on things that make up the human experience.

the truth will set you free

Jan 27, 2020

I’ve always been fascinated with the complexities of what we believe. What do I believe is truth? Where did it come from? The set of ideals and values and all the things I find inexplicably true. For all of us I think it comes from a variety of places. Your elementary classrooms, Sunday school, dinner table conversations. As a child, it’s listening to “adults” speak. Eavesdropping down the hall as you hear your aunts and uncles discuss politics. Popping your head up from ...

A Human I Know Named Adriana

Jan 13, 2020

She wasn’t good enough.There once was a girl with long brown blonde hair hanging in the wind, her form perfectly posed to the ground like a statue. Her eyes were determined and she was ready to run. Her posture proved she was were she belonged - her element, her realm, the kingdom in which she could take flight. As she flew, the reality of cheers and clapping hands were drowned out by a voice that was loud and present no matter how fast she ran. This would be the snapshot of her most ...

2019

Dec 30, 2019

Ask me who I am. Ask me who I was. Ask me who I will be. Staring down the end of 2019 in the face I don’t have the answers to any of those questions. I feel like I’m standing between my past self and who I want to be, pulling with all my might like a strongman to unite the two parts of myself into someone I can function as right now.I have always thought of years like a volume of books on the shelf. Pages of experiences and days lived, the good and the bad. Its an easy way for me to ...

Being Me

Aug 28, 2019

Picture it, it’s 1990 and a grey Pontiac STE is bending around incessant curves down country roads carrying me to high school. But country roads was not playing on the radio, I believe Paula Abdul was my jam that year and I remember my parents protests as I handed them the tape that every song had the same beat. I’m sure my socks were the exact same color as my shirt and my choice of jeans were probably pleated, high waisted with multiple fabric looped belts. I would catch a glimpse ...

being beautiful

Apr 08, 2019

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahil Gibran Saying I’m nervous would be an understatement. I’m getting ready to meet someone new. It’s a date. I think that means the same for most of us, we want to prepare and look our best. I’ve been in the gym every morning with my trainer for about a year now, and although I’m closer to where I want to be, I still feel like I’m not quite satisfied with what I see in my mirror. Ahh the ...

being invited

Apr 01, 2019

You find yourself in a room with an exquisitely set banqueting table. It takes up most of the space which appears to be empty. Standing at the head it looks like it could span a couple of football fields with chairs on either side. The table runner is adorned with flickering candlesticks and cascading floral arrangements, oh and there is violin music playing in the background, the kind that makes you cry at the end of movies. Each chair is covered in stunning fabric that matches the napkins ...

being worthy

Mar 25, 2019

Nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth. - Helen SchucmanMy most prized possession is a hanky. Yep, you read that right. Of all the things that I physically, tangibly own, one of the items I value the most is my grandmothers handkerchief. Its a faded white ladies handkerchief with a gold/orange/brown floral color scheme. It doesn’t do anything. I have it tucked away in a keepsake box on my dresser. I don’t pull it out of that box often to look at ...