It's only funny til somebody loses an eye
In Grant Park this saying was written across a beam of an old wooden train bridge. The link below is to just one area of this amazingly beautiful park. Anyone living by the Great Lakes can tell you how life is changed by this body of water.
milwaukee.about.com/od/sportsrecreationhealth/ig/Seven-Bridges/
Eyes are the windows to the soul. Not only do we communicate with them, but they take in everything visible around us. What we choose to see is another story.
Just because someone has a nice looking camera don't think everyone can see photographically. With the purchase of my first nice 35 mm camera, roll of film and all the other gadgets I brought home that day my life was just one step closer to complete. The day I picked up my pictures and proudly headed for home to have a look see. I think I cried, not happy tears, OH... no... no... no... no!! I knew what I saw when the pictures were taken and what I saw from the pictures in my hands were a totally different deal. My beautiful sunset picture had all this stuff I didn't want in it, like garbage dumpsters, electrical lines and telephone poles and I even think the butt of a dog!!! I don't think any out of those pictures was worth saving, oh yes... I cried!!
Our eyes do see it but our mind chooses to interpret it just how we want it. So I guess you can say even way back when, I always preferred to see the beauty of something. Photographically speaking I think a lot of people have to learn how to really see. Some people have a natural ability which is a true gift in my book. My daughter can see and cannot understand when I tell her this, because her interpretation of what her eyes are seeing is really there. I on the other hand had to learn to see and it wasn't easy and still isn't because my mind is just swimming with all these different things I feel I need to think of before that shutter is pressed. In time there will come a day when I don't have to think about it so much.
Learning to see where light and shadow are falling onto a person or subject you are photographing is another key element to seeing in both photography and fine art painting. I know learning to paint watercolor has helped me to really look at a photograph, which I want to think has helped me see better now.
After taking a four week photography course through the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, www.fmopa.org instructed by a very fun and very talented photographer, by the name of Chip Weiner, www.chipshotz.com I started to really look at my pictures against what others were taking and found out how cool it is to be shooting the same subject as someone else and seeing so totally different.
Wow!! sometimes I think I've been totally seduced by the lens. Maybe I'm just nuts but I can live with it :)
Always keep an eye out for simple beauty, it's what life is made of.
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