Noticing things

Decorations, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Some people seem to notice all kinds of small things - such as coins or interesting objects dropped on the street. I'm usually blind to such things, although every once in a while I'm aware of the environment.

I feel that photography is a way of opening up to the visual riches of the world, a means of removing the blinds so to speak. Since starting to take more photos this spring I have been a bit more observant, especially about nature, things like leaf color and patterns, cloud formations, colors of cars or buildings or sunsets, and so on. You could say that a photographer is a one-eyed person in the world of the blind.