When trying to improve one’s photography, it’s hard to get out of your own perspective and into someone-or something-else’s. We’re so used to centering all our subjects in our field of vision, for example, and we’re used to the idea that we only need to take a glance at something in order to understand it’s value. It’s hard to ‘get off our high horse’ and see something we don’t usually see, or discomforts us.
Now, about this photo, it’s one I took many months ago on the Freestyle Academy Europe Trip to the UK, and it was taken from the high view of a castle that had a bridge and a port, and also wide green fields and a little town and even a train in its view. I usually don’t take a lot of high-angle photos because I find them to be really difficult since there are so many visual elements at once, and I find myself wishing I could just suspend myself in the air to take the right picture. But I’m really proud of this one, I really like the symmetry of the bridge and how it leads your eye to the center, where the little birds are. This photo allows you to perceive a tucked-away home, a life that maybe not many people passing through the bottom know is there.