Three Perspectives

My teacher asked me to take a picture of something very familiar but with three different perspectives. I thought the task was very challenging but I generally like things that challenge my boundaries. I chose the cliche answer. I chose to do it over water. When most people think of water they think of it in the traditional sense. They do not see beyond the boundaries. However, I see water in a completely different way. The Photos are as follows.

I liked this photo for the imagery of water. It is in context with earth but at the same time gives off a very reflective state. The strands of water to me represent streams of life flowing into the earth, reflecting that life all around them. 

I like this photo because very rarely do people see the untamed side of water. In most instances when people think of water they think of it as flowing peacefully in a river or in the substances they drink. The truth is water is one of the most powerful substances on this planet. I think this photo illustrates just how unpredictable water can be. 

This Photo is different. I know that on first appearance the tendency is to think that this is the night sky full of stars. I assure you though there is no where in Nashville where I could get a shot of the sky like this. This is actually a shot of water plummeting to the sky. To me it represents the vastness of the substance as well as the complexity of both its shape and appearance.  

Beauty in Life

I took this Picture in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Each Candle represents a prayer in the Catholic faith.

"Letting go of self is an essential precondition to real seeing. When you let go of yourself, you abandon any preconceptions about the subject matter that might cramp you into photographing in a certain, predetermined way. As long as you are worried about whether or not you will be able to make good pictures or are concerned about enjoying yourself, you are unlikely either to make the best photographs you can or to experience he joy of photography to the fullest." - Freeman Patterson

    The first thing that the author seemed to point out was how caught up in life human beings can become. In fact so caught up in life that they fail to see the beauty around them. I tend to agree with him too. After reading what he wrote I found myself thinking about the beauty that I fail to comprehend that happens around me everyday. It appeals to me to look at things in a completely different way. Maybe to see more of what beauty there is in every corner. I might look more at the hue's in the world around me. Less at facts and more in the beauty of life. I do fully belief that life becomes over time the mindless drizzle of rain. That it just eventually one day stops in a crash and with it abruptly ends.

  

      "Where I live, people seldom notice the dandelions in the spring because there are so many of them. But, in southern Africa, a woman I know struggles to grow a little patch of dandelions in her garden. For her, dandelions are not familiar." - Freeman Patterson 

    
      The other point the author elaborated on was how much for granted we take things in life. I thought the point of the lady trying to grow Dandy Lions in her garden in South Africa was a wonderful representation of what humans typically do. People seem to take something that they have so much of, such as trees, and completely dismiss it as normal. I think though that there is nothing more beautiful than a tree. For instance, a tree in both size and structure is an amazing creature. Though most of it's beauty is above the ground, its leaves that stretch to the sky, it receives most of its nutrients from below the ground. Just the sheer beauty of them is enough to keep me in awe for a lifetime. Yet, they have become such a common thing to the human world that trees are no longer seen as a beautiful organism but instead a resource, only something that meets a need. The author seems to strike the idea of how much humans miss a lot of the beauty in life by just looking at necessities, that is when the human race loses beauty. I think that as a photographer I need to start to observe more of life's qualities and less of it's necessities.  

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