fotdmike Published on April 19, 2008
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Open your eyes!

Saturday April 19, 2008 at 07:29AM

Went to stay with a photo-enthusiast mate of mine up in Derbyshire for a few days.
Late afternoon/early evening he suggested we go out for a stroll around his village, and of course I took the cameras with me.

"So where are all the pics he's taken of his locale?" I asked myself, for the scenery was absolutely delightful, and I had a hard time controlling the impulse simply to "point and shoot"... and that with a dSLR!

Maybe we sometimes need a stranger's eye just to see the beauty and "interestingness" that's around us all the time.

(The Little Eaton in Derbyshire set, which contains a mere fraction of the pics I actually shot!)

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Purple T says:
You're right. I often ride my bike around that area, and although i take a the odd photo i don't really take as many as it deserves. I guess i'm so used to the area that even though i see it and appreciate how nice it is, i rarely stop for the photos.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
Kizzby says:
Very true. I lived in a beautiful village for many years and hardly have any photos to show for it! But, then again, that was well before the age of the digital camera.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
fotdmike says:
Although I take quite a lot of photos around my own village I wonder sometimes just how much I'm missing because I'm so familiar with it. What would a stranger see that I don't?
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

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