MIAMI – For far more than 40 years, Mark Potter was a Miami-centered veteran of community Television news, an investigative journalist on the front lines.
“I included anything from you know, Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug war, Mexican drug war, the border wars and on and on,” he claimed.
In 2016, Potter embarked on a very well-acquired retirement, but that wouldn’t very last very long.
“Just one thirty day period immediately after my retirement, my wife Judith and I got the catastrophic information, that she had high-phase ovarian cancer. We went right into whole-time cancer care,” Potter said.
That most cancers treatment lasted a few many years until finally she passed away in 2019.
“It was normally a 14-hour working day. I was a total-time caregiver. I gave up everything because it was an honor to do it. But it took a toll on me as well,” Potter reported.
He mentioned Judith saw it as well.
“Judith said ‘listen, if you are heading to endure this, in your try to assist me endure, you want to get out of the dwelling a minor bit every day to get absent from cancer’,” explained Potter.
He took on a everyday pre-dawn interest, capturing Florida’s beautiful sunrises and wildlife in images. Quickly something occurred that he did not anticipate.
“When I started out to submit my shots just for anything to do on Facebook and Instagram, I started having a reaction from other men and women who reported ‘Wow, these images assist us. Can we have some far more?’,” Potter defined.
It rapid grew to become a symbiotic relationship concerning Potter and his Facebook good friends. He did not even know some of them and nonetheless they wished much more, inquiring him to publish an real photograph e-book.
“I would say I ain’t doing no ‘fufu’ photo ebook, I’m a hard news person. But then I grew up, I matured, and I understood, hold out a moment, they are asking for one thing,” he stated.
The final result is his just produced e book “Dawn: A Photographic Journey of Convenience, Healing and Inspiration.”
That title, he claims, sums up the undertaking for him.
“My pics, which are upbeat and vibrant, all commenced from tragedy,” he mentioned. “They started out from tragedy but they failed to end up that way, miraculously.”
Just one photograph of two birds traveling by means of a golden dawn provides him peace.
“I see in that photo, Judith and me alongside one another. I see us traveling past the solar,” he explained.
CBS4’s Lisa Petrillo questioned him how he was undertaking now.
“I am excellent. But as you can listen to in my voice it really is still an psychological subject,” he explained, his voice marginally cracking. “This was a big reduction. But the response that I have gotten is also a cause for emotion. But it is really happy emotion.”
Potter nevertheless goes out just about every early morning waiting around for the second when darkness turns to light-weight. He phone calls it ‘Magic Time’ and states no just one need to miss it.
“It can be a technicolor motion picture in the sky. That is just magic How does that take place? I can not fathom how any person would want to snooze in and miss out on that,” he reported.
“Sunrise. A photographic Journey of Comfort and ease, Therapeutic, and Inspiration” is now out wherever you buy guides.
