Outside Looking In | 06:31AM Sep 17, 2007
Maybe it’s just me. But with my overzealous visual acuity and my natural gravity toward unique perception I find mystery in the everyday. The ordinary, the overlooked. All things taken for granted. There is something about the routine, the mundane, that strikes a cord in me.
This is why I love photographing in the street. Amongst mail boxes and parking meters, the simple act of focusing my lens can radically challenge someone’s consciousness of the world around them.
Sure, you could grab your gear, hop in your car, drive a few hundred miles, and hike into the Canadian wilderness. Once there, totally alone, you could rise before the sun and capture its first soft rays as they peak over the treetops and paint the storybook landscape gold. Sure, people will look at that image and comment on how beautiful and mysterious the world can be. Congratulations.
You really want a challenge? Take that same mystery and apply it to an ordinary object. Sure, a far away place can be mysterious. If it wasn’t then it wouldn’t far away. But finding obscurity in the ordinary, the here and now—that’s an image worth talking about.
So take the challenge. Push yourself, push your vision and look closer, look harder. Because only when you look beyond the ordinary will you truly begin to see.
This is why I love photographing in the street. Amongst mail boxes and parking meters, the simple act of focusing my lens can radically challenge someone’s consciousness of the world around them.
Sure, you could grab your gear, hop in your car, drive a few hundred miles, and hike into the Canadian wilderness. Once there, totally alone, you could rise before the sun and capture its first soft rays as they peak over the treetops and paint the storybook landscape gold. Sure, people will look at that image and comment on how beautiful and mysterious the world can be. Congratulations.
You really want a challenge? Take that same mystery and apply it to an ordinary object. Sure, a far away place can be mysterious. If it wasn’t then it wouldn’t far away. But finding obscurity in the ordinary, the here and now—that’s an image worth talking about.
So take the challenge. Push yourself, push your vision and look closer, look harder. Because only when you look beyond the ordinary will you truly begin to see.
