on seeing the world through new glasses
I was a kid. I don’t know how old I was, but I still remember those first hours after leaving the eye doctor with a new pair of glasses. Being able to see the price of the fruit at the grocery store, or the butcher's shop sign from across the street. I was taking a first glimpse at a world I thought it was supposed to be blurry.
Some 30 years later, a similar transformation would happen to me again. This time, it wasn't a new pair of glasses that revealed a whole different world, it was a camera.
It was photography that changed my understanding of the world, and its beauty. Similarly to what the glasses did, photography showed me that what I assumed the world to be, was just the way I was seeing it. There were many other ways to look at it. And the best of all, the camera let me capture it all to share that vision with everyone else.
Every once in a while, we need to have our eyes checked and perhaps get new prescription glasses. We get used to the ordinary, to the blurriness, to the mundane. It’s only when we put them on that we realize all we’d been missing.
Let photography do that for you. Grab your camera and go to places you frequent but never photographed before. Try to look at them from a new perspective, find the beauty in them.
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I visited St Joseph, Michigan, a few times this past winter. There, I found incredibly beautiful winter land and lake-scapes, and I made some of my favorite images of 2021 so far.
I had never been there without snow, though, clearly something I had to fix at some point. Even though all the spots were familiar, they also were somewhat strange and alien, deprived of the snow and ice cover.
Because of the warmer weather and the flowing water, I was able to take some proper long exposures.
You might start to see a pattern here: I’m loving exploring Lake Michigan. After our recent camping trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, I knew I had to go back and visit some of the spots I had left.
This is the video of my 3-day solo trip to places like Ludington, Muskegon, Holland and Grand Haven, all along the shore of Lake Michigan.
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Adrian