This particular writing segment is intended to be on a photo that I wished I had taken but did not. I have decided to take a slightly different approach and write on the photo I envisioned in my mind versus the photo I created with a camera. I am pretty decent at having ideas, bringing these ideas to fruition though... that can be a problem.
My most recent and photo related idea was to take pictures from the point of view of my shoes. I love my shoes, I want to see what they see, stand where they stand-in a manner of speaking. So I set out to take pictures of what my shoes were seeing, instead I took pictures of my shoes. This is not to say that they were not cool pictures or that I didn't put a lot of thought into it, I did. And although other people perhaps could not see my vision through these developed pieces of film, I could. Although perhaps not in entirety. I could certainly see a beginning, the first thought outside the box but I have some growing still to do.
See, I sometimes have difficulty translating the thoughts in my head into things other people can understand. Undeniably "different," I am often unable to make myself heard, though I have much to say. I sometimes feel that my brain follows a pattern completely foreign to the rest of the world and that I must work extra hard to be understood. This particular idea was no different.
You see the eyes of my shoe would not see themselves were they to take a picture, they would instead see the world from a different point of view. A lower point of view. I have come to understand that this change in view makes for an interesting picture with quite a different perception. AS I begin my quest to document the world as my shoes see it, I will be required to lie down on wet grass, wood chips, and perhaps even muddy soil. I will see the bottom ends of things that I never wanted to see. But in this newness, I intend to find something beautiful. I have always tried to find the beauty in the ugly, and I always find what I am looking for.
Though I have apparently not been properly demonstrating this result in my photography thus far, I certainly intend to. I will accomplish the impossible, I will take the picture I didn't take. I will find a way to portray what I am truly thinking. It is a great idea, I need only to express it.
