Learn To Look Until You see - From Photography Tips by Michael Blyth

a moment to end the week through Photography and Words

Learn To Look

Don't miss out on the beauty of a British Springtime - or spring anywhere for that matter

Explore the whole photograph noticing shape and form

Not a simple photography tip as such, but more a thought about the importance of 'learn to look'

This was taken on the way to Studland beach where I took last week's glass image. One of my our favourite parts of the journey, a quiet bridge overlooking the Stour. (Our other being coffee at The Goat in Wareham)

It's a bridge worth standing on and taking time to let the 'small parts that make up the whole' seep into your soul as you notice the spotlight of sun on the water, the distant trees silhouetted.

Let your eyes search the still dark areas to the left middle, the writhing water of the foreground slipping into the fast moving runnel that carries your eye back towards the sun. Within a short while the mist will be gone, and you will see other things - but for now, love the moment

And somewhere in there will be swans and mallard, dabbling away, such special birds.

Maybe you're in a state of 'not good' perhaps find a place of beauty and let your soul be still, let your mind be diverted by the little things and the whole - and listen, the sound of the water, the birds of dawn.

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