Inspiration

Watching the movie Julie and Julia inspired me to create my own project based blog. It includes my ideas about photography, the art of composing, observations and musings. The photos, taken with a point and shoot camera, illustrate the idea that it is not the camera but a person's vision that makes all the difference.

Photography can show you the world in a whole new way and be a tool of transformation and personal growth. I hope you will join me on my journey of sights and insights, expanding our universe frame by frame.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Up high to down low

"Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light"
~ the book Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

How we approach our subject or life can be straight on or from different perspectives. When we shift our point of view, we can discover the unexpected.

The tendency to photograph from eye level is how most people approach an image. Shifting our approach to a child's point of view or down low to the ground can add new observations and change the scale of objects. Things that were small become large like in the movie Antz, where a simple backyard full of grass becomes a jungle like obstacle course.

Another point of view is the bird's eye or from up high.  The world seen from the skies above transforms farms and fields into a patchwork quilt, new lines and shapes emerge that are not visible when looking straight on.

Try exploring the world from a range of point of views, down low to up high and the in-between.

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