Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips “Learning to See Includes Other Peoples Perspectives”

a quiet moment to start the year, with inspiration through Photography and Words

“Like Light, Prayer doesn't ask permission — it just transforms.”

“Learning to See Includes Other Peoples Perspectives”

Change your perspective's in 2026

Not a simple photography tip as such, but more like life inspiration through Photography and Words—a mix of visual with words that may resonate. Learning to See; that expression I learnt from Monet, amongst others, includes being still and Includes learning to see other peoples perspectives.

New Year thoughts that came to me during the final hours of New Years Day: pray for your enemies — and don’t quit because nothing seems to move. This isn’t excusing harm or dropping boundaries. It’s refusing to carry resentment into the year. Start honest: “Help me want their good. Help me be free.” Keep showing up; prayer is training, not a quick fix.

Prayer changes perspective. It shifts you from replaying the offence to seeing a human being again — sometimes broken, sometimes blind, always accountable, but no longer in charge of your inner world. And it can change the other person too: softening what’s hardened, interrupting patterns, opening a door you couldn’t force.

This impulse isn’t uniquely Christian. Judaism urges kindness towards an enemy and prayer aimed at repentance rather than downfall. Islam teaches returning wrong with what is better, trusting mercy and du’a can disarm hostility. Buddhism trains compassion and loving-kindness to end hatred. Jain, Sikh and Hindu traditions also commend forgiveness and freedom from malice. Call it prayer, blessing, or goodwill — it’s the strongest weapon we’ve got: it fights hatred without becoming it.

Unusually, much of this is from an instruction I gave AI to assess how the call "pray for your enemies' fits within the religions of the world. Although I am a Christian, that is of little use to those of another faith, unless theirs too has the same perspective. So my sentiments if not all my words.

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