Images are Everywhere, just look around.

On my recent trip to San Francisco, stopping at the Embarcadero Center, Don Schremp pointed out a small staircase. Likely without being pointed out, I would have ignored this structure, walked down it without noticing the interesting photographic potential. It just wasn't that interesting until I actually examined it. For me that's a recurring lesson, there are lots of amazing images all around us if we just look for them. This exercise pays big dividends in developing the photographic eye. Now anyone with sight can take a great image of the Golden Gate Bridge, but can you find a staircase like this, or see an image in a plant, floor pattern, or a spider web in your garage? This is the treasure trove of opportunity that surrounds us all, if we only open our eyes. Now I'm not preaching to you as much as too myself. I'm as guilty as anyone for ignoring the obscure for the spectacular, depending on mother nature not my own creative eyesight, so take this blog as a confession not a sermon. And I need to read this blog everyday, become more vigilant in my observation skills, explore the less obvious, and find those special things that make photography so compelling. I know are they within ten steps of where I type, new exciting things, images that will astound me when photographed. Now to find them.

Can you believe so many patterns exist, the floor, the stairsteps, the railing, the plant. And under my nose without a clue.

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[eye surgery risks]

I feel like I have a photographic eye too, since my mind seems to wander off when I'm just standing around and I start observing things most people wouldn't even bother noticing.