Live and Learn

This is my first official post to my new photography blog and so I suppose perhaps it should be representative of my first real experience with it. Looking through the viewfinder you discover an entirely different perspective. Everything is distorted and muddied. The most common views become surreal, fantastic, and extraordinary.

Looking up on my way to the preserve for a little shooting session I noticed a scrubby pine tree that I probably pass a thousand times a month in my car. On foot and with this camera in hand however, it takes on new meaning and new potential.

The photograph I took became “Live and Learn” and implied to me how we all struggle to make it through life. Here in Florida the landscape easily reveals a history of tumultuous storms. Many pines show the wear and tear of lightning strikes, heavy winds, and hurricanes. In fact, almost all the trees lean inward towards the west. We all bend some to our circumstances, and we all take the lessons we’ve learned along the way.