Looking down (again – I know…)
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is “Down” and it has taken on a mind of its own inside my head. I’ve been realizing how often I shoot from a perspective of looking down on my subject. This subject is the floor of the Baptistry in Pisa, Italy.
I pride myself on shooting a great number of my photos from perspectives that others do not. I try to get down on the ground for many shots. I’ll climb up on chairs and tables and counter-tops. I’ll hang myself off railings and practically lie down on railway lines. All in the name of getting the right shot.
But down? I don’t often look down on things. I’m over six feet tall and I spend much of my day looking down, so it seems to me that it’s a given that I’ll look down – in which case, I’ll avoid it when I’m shooting photographs. Avoid the obvious.
Yet, when WordPress posted “down” as the challenge, there they were. So many photos looking down. Maybe my mind is fighting me and I don’t even know it…
…the first rule of photo club is…
