Shadows in Life

Recently some exploring took me out onto the streets with my camera looking for unique things to photograph. The view of the sea, the shot of the flower, that historic monument; these are the normal things that catch our attention. This shadow cast across the street I almost missed; I stepped on it without even noticing it's presence. The iron gate which was simple in itself casts a mirror image that is missed and trodden upon without a notice by the passerby.

We are trained to look for certain things and to expect certain things. The breadth and height of the beauty in our world are sadly lost to our preconceived notions of what beauty is. We miss the little things on our way to achieving what we've been programmed to do in life.

The Stitched Wall

Last Saturday I was exploring an old school grounds. The place was mostly empty with the exeption of a couple of guards and the gardener. They were busy and didn't seem too talkative so I continued my search for something interesting to photograph. I found this wall. It was at the back of the school and served no known purpose to me. The paint was worn and tired and looked in need of replacement. But here was my subject. A sore thumb in an otherwise excellently kept school grounds. I took two photos of this wall and then stiched them together. The seam is somewhere in the door; can you see it? The original picture was actually quite wider but I trimmed it's ends to make it fit better.