Seeing Beauty

You cannot rush it. Seeing beauty requires looking, lingering, watching, wondering and waiting...taking the time to move closer and then closer still. When I'm that close, close enough to take a picture of the beauty I have found (or has it found me?) I hold my breath. I don't want to miss the shot because of camera shake but I wonder also if I don't want to miss the moment. Sometimes it is as though time stops when I look through my viewfinder. My breath catches and in that moment, that is all I see. Beauty.