see this thing all the time.
It’s a sensory board we have at work, covered in hundreds of tiny sequins. The kids can run their hands across them, flip them back and forth, change the colors, make patterns, or sometimes just enjoy the feeling of them moving beneath their fingers.
Normally, I see it from above.
A bunch of colorful sequins.
Then I put my camera almost level with it.
And suddenly, it looked enormous.
Individual sequins became little overlapping discs of color. The ones closest to my camera stayed sharp while everything behind them melted into tiny circles of light.
It almost looked like a landscape.
Nothing about the sensory board had changed.
I had.
Or, more specifically, my perspective had.
That’s something I love about photography.
It gives me an excuse to look at ordinary things from angles I probably never would otherwise.
Sometimes looking closer really does mean getting closer.
Other times, it means getting lower.
Turning something around.
Looking underneath it.
Standing somewhere you normally wouldn’t.
Because sometimes there isn’t anything new waiting to be discovered.
Sometimes you’ve already seen it a hundred times.
You just haven’t seen it like this yet.
— Destiny
P.S. Pick something ordinary around you today and look at it from an angle you normally wouldn’t. You might be surprised by what it turns into.
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