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Early morning mist |
A thought occurred as I looked through all the photos I’d taken in Tuscany.
So many of them were pictures of vast landscapes, even though I know full well that no photo will ever do justice to such a scene. So few of my photos are of details – even though such photos are often the most evocative. I just don’t see them even when they’re right under my nose.
I wondered whether the pictures one takes are actually a reflection of one’s approach to life. I know I’m a ‘big picture’ kinda girl – always full of big new ideas, always having to force myself to execute ideas I’ve already had. I do know that the devil is in the detail, but sometimes I feel just too lazy to look for him.
One of the reasons I love reading craft and design blogs is that they are often full of photos of tiny details, often taken from an unexpected perspective. Is it because ‘crafty’ people are ‘details’ people and is this one of the reasons they do what they do?
Two blogs which are fabulous examples of this are Cally Creates (check out her recent photos of Edinburgh) and Tongue in Cheek, which I read because her daily photos are just so evocative of France and fill me with nostalgia (I’ve just noticed that Corey from Tongue in Cheek has written a post about how she’s not a details kind of person, so I guess that blows the above theory completely out of the water!)
I love this photo! It is very graphic. I didn’t realize at first that those where trees on either side! Its lovely!
Your photos are pretty gorgeous.
Thank you for the email and those two links- beautiful sites!
Aw, thanks for that.
The thing is, you see details, just different ones, like the alien hairstyles of certain celebs that some of us crafty types might miss because we are too busy trying to get a close up of a bee’s bottom before it flies away!