Take a look at this photo I made of Julie a few weeks ago.

© Armando Bellmas

This photograph makes me happy for a bunch of reasons. The main one being that it’s a shot in the right direction.

As an artist you get this vision of where you want your work to go, where you want it to take you, of what you want it to look like based on the ideas in your head. Sometimes it’s hard to put it into words. This shot, however, does all the talking — it just looks and feels right to me.

This pride in my work jives perfectly with this quote from Kurt Vonnegut (via The Onion’s A.V. Club):

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’

Yep, this is one of those moments.