fotdmike Published on April 19, 08
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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 3 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 3 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?
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