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Had a good talk today. Put things into perspective. Things haven't changed in my life but I am going to experiment with looking at some things through a new lens.
These pillars hold up one of the nearby piers. I found that going in close enough to omit the pier above and the sea below gave a confusing, disorienting effect.
A look down a set of railroad tracks where they cross Highway 313, just off the main road (U.S. Highway 191) leading to Moab, Utah and Interstate 70 (south and north, respectively).
Thursday, 6th at 4:59 p.m.
I am one of several folks across the globe that took a picture
at this exact moment. the Moment blog | the Moment flickr group
A stellar lightning storm brought a cooling rain to our area early this morning. So, thankfully, all day it stayed cool and drizzly until shortly before the Moment arrived and the sun popped out. When my alarm went off I stepped outside and was instantly caught by the notion of how many times during the day I pass through my front door, but rarely embrace it's own unique and unchanging perspective.
I have had a hard time this week coming up with something to photograph. It has been cold, wet, and damp here in Belgium all week and the forecast for this coming week is more of the same. As I sat in my van yesterday waiting for the downpour to slow down for me to get out, I thought to myself, this has been my whole perspective all week. I have been down, out of focus, and grey. I think the lack of sunshine is getting to me along with the cold. I hope that the sun and warmth decide to show up soon and that my perspective will change too!!!
I fooled around on Photoshop to correct the perspective on this wide-angle shot. Not perfect, but what the hey, I've uploaded it anyway.
Perspective - photo taken by mrtraveller in Sevilla, Spain.
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What do you see?
The beautiful flower thrusting itself into the sunlight, risking its delicate nature in the harsh world, hoping for bees to come and pollinate it so that it can grow the seeds of the next generation?
Or do you see the fence, metal links cold, lifeless and uncaring, a dead thing that cares nothing for the flower or its life or its need to create new life, steel chains standing in the plant's way and barring it from evolving and from daring to hope for the future?
The fence is bigger. The fence is stronger. It is bold and unforgiving and so much more noticeable. The fence is intolerance.
But the flower is hope. Life. Openness. The flower uses the fence to grow and be the good that it was intended to be.
In your life, what would you be? Fence or flower? Personally I think there are too many fences. I choose the flower.
For my friend, who knows the difference.