Everyday Interesting

Originally uploaded by Scootie.

one of the things that Photography has done for me is to open my eyes. Every day we walk down the same streets, pass the same things, often pass the same people and we don't really notice them. Something about the way the human brain works and it's method of hiding the details that you don't really care about, means that you pass by these places and don't really see them. You might 'know' what they look like, and you definitely recognise them when you see them, but you probably haven't looked at them for years. One trick that all this photography has given me is the occasional ability to reset those details back to 'default' (or 'tourist') level, so you start to notice them all over again and start to see things that you hadn't realised were in there. You have to be in the right frame of mind of course, you have to have your 'mojo' flowing, otherwise you can't turn your eyes on properly, but when you do it's really quite amazing how many interesting things you can come up with.