On a walk home along London's South Bank with my camera, on an uncomfortably cold Feb' day. I started to notice I was thinking about where I wanted to get to, rather than where I actually was.
I'd become so familiar with the scene that I hardly noticed it at all. My companion said that this was why she loved to travel to far away places, because England was "just too familiar!"
I could obviously see her point, as was told in the way I was marching off towards my tube station but it didn't feel quite right!
I walked the long way back to my train station rather than getting the tube and decided to look out through my lens. Once my camera was set on macro a much less familiar place opened up to me.
It opened the idea to me that when I get into that way of thinking, I can always set myself on macro and view a new world of detail, colour and shape and texture... a lot cheaper than flying to Thailand!
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail”
Alfred North Whitehead (British Mathematician and Philosopher, 1861-1947)
