Penning Photography Daily

Tracks in the snow-covered parking lot at a fishing point on Lake Springfield.

The way the trees line up towards the horizon, meeting that spectacular sky full of blue and white. Add to that the tire tracks leading the eye to the horizon and sky.

That’s what I call a nice vertical landscape.

I held my camera right above the snow to get this. I had an idea and the result is better than what I was imagining.

Perspective.

Changing your point of view can make a huge difference in composing a photograph as well as in seeing life differently. Getting out of my own normal way of seeing often opens up beauty that has been overlooked.

The same change of perspective gives insight in how you view everyone you meet.

I bring all my own experiences to what I see and how I perceive it. Moving out of that point of view takes a bit of doing but the effort has brought delight and understanding to me when I take the time to see from somewhere outside of my usual point of view. With a composition for a photograph, it brought the ground and sky together in a very pleasing way.

Taking the time to see the world through another person’s point of view, that’s much harder to do, but can infinitely more rewarding. Each of us has a rich store of experiences that can be appreciated when I make the effort to try to see the world from their perspective. Not easy, but each of us is worth the effort.

I leave my tracks in the world. Some of which are these photographs and words.