Whether you use your phone or a camera to take photos, standing straight holding your device at face level and pressing the capture button isn’t the best way to get great shots.
We have a mulberry tree in the garden and this year, our third year here, it is producing an abundant crop of mulberries. I don’t think I’d ever seen a mulberry in real life till I moved here, but over the last couple of years I’d become aware the tree could produce these strange, almost insect-like red fruits. Until they turn black they have virtually no taste. But this year they are literally dropping off the tree every day. And they’re sweet and juicy!
I decided to take a photo of how we are finding them in the grass but as I looked through my viewfinder the scene was decidedly underwhelming. So I got down on my knees in the grass and took these photos (the one above and the one below)
I know they don’t show dozens of fruits lying in the grass but don’t you think these shots are more engaging?
The first one is of two mulberries and you get an idea of the scale from the size of the daisies in the background. The second image is just of one mulberry in all its strange and beautiful ripeness.
What do you think? Try for yourself next time you’re out taking photos. Don’t you think changing YOUR position before you frame your shot opens up a whole other, more interesting, world?
Thought for the day – I think this applies in life too.
When we change OUR position to look at anything from another angle, we see MORE, and can understand more deeply – whether that’s changing our physical position, travelling to see the world (other towns, other countries, other cultures) from other perspectives, or trying to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes to gain a better understanding of what life is like for them.
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