Photography,
The art of being able
to make anything beautiful,
To give anything the
opportunity to have more meaning.
From a pair of
underwear on the fence at school,
A lonely flower in
the middle of a field,
Or an old beaten down
rusty school bus.
A different way to
look at things from a different point of view,
To see the charm of
everything in a new way,
The ability to look
at something boring and ugly,
And see the true
glory in it.
To think of the
meaning of everything,
To embrace it and be
fascinated by it.
Photography is very
much like poetry,
Poetry to me, is the
skill of being able to write about the beauty in anything,
About a smelly cat,
Or a boring door,
Although these can
both also be used to bring out the beauty in already lovely things.
To form a drab
blanket to poses an effortless elegance about it.
It’s like a whole new
world,
Something that not
everybody has the ability to see,
Then again,
Maybe it isn’t that
they don’t have the ability,
But they don’t have
the drive,
Or the desire to look
at the true beauty in everything.
Maybe people are far
to caught up in the everyday scene,
The same signs on the
way to work,
The same old tree
that has been there for a hundred years.
But really, that
sign,
At the right angle
and lighting,
Makes for a beautiful
picture,
And that tree, has an
amazing story,
That you could write
so much about,
About the way the
trunk forms,
How it is different
than any other tree in the whole world.
You see,
Poetry and
photography are a new way to look at the world,
It’s the art of being
able to make anything beautiful.
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