Photography and Changing Perspectives
8 Jul
I don’t know if this is common for other people when they start out in dabbling with photography, but I’ve noticed lately that I notice more… colors, shapes, plants, the sky (I am constantly noticing how absolutely amazing the sky looks), a baby, animals… it just all suddenly seems like an opportunity for a cool photo or a short pause even if I don’t have my Canon with me.
What I love about it is that I find colors and shapes and angles to love in just about anything, and I see a picture in a lot of things I’ve never really looked at closely before. Even if I don’t take a picture at the time, I pause and I take a lot more time to enjoy the images around me.
Whether you capture them in a photograph or not, individual moments in the world around you can be surprisingly worthy of observation and reflection. I’m grateful to photography for reminding me of that, and I look forward to improving my ability to capture those individual moments for enjoying later and sharing with others. I’m really just having a blast with my camera, and surprised at how much more aware I am of the world around me. :)
Does photography do that for you? Does something else you’ve started recently open your eyes in the same way? What are you doing these days that challenges you to see the world in a new or more exciting way?
