Seeing Beyond the Photo. A photographer's story.

I am creative. I paint, write, make jewelry, sculpt, write recipes, and photograph. Sort of just scratching the surface here!
  I have a 'Photo Image Opinion'. (I made that up, like?)  I do though, really.
This opinion is that, yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it goes beyond that.
 First lets look at some images I took today that represent outdoor activity in Northern Wisconsin, and, beauty in the eye of most beholders!

 So here we have it. A day on the ice known as Beaver Dam Lake, which surrounds our little town and makes us an island, in a way. We are known as The Island City.
Snowshoeing, snowmobiling with a covered sled behind (FUN), frozen guy on the lake, and ice fishing. Go 'Pack' Go! Oh, about this time I would be repainted that ice shack!
   So these are the normal daily/weekend activities in the North Country in Winter, when the ice thaws, it's boats, boards and the like.
  However, that is not what this is about.
  It's about seeing beyond the 'scenery', the common, the pretty little photo.
  I went Behind The Scenes.      I found MY Kinda OF Spectacular.                                                              These images, taken on the backstreets of our little town, the backs of the very old but beautiful (at least in front) buildings. And, other structures.   I find beauty here. I find beauty in reflections and the old door in a window, and a broken window. Yes, I enhanced the images. Yes, it added to them. But my point it, do we look deep? Do we look beyond the commonly pleasant and the norm? Do we dig deep to find beauty where no man has found it before. (Make that woman)
   The first photo is Main Street Cumberland USA.
Yes, enhanced, but it made it so peaceful and calming. Love how the truly red bench and the (not so real) flowers POPPED in red.

  We have our own little 'power supply'. I think, possibly one of the few in the State. Will have to check with BIL on that one, Yes, I enhanced again, but I see beauty, not just iron and wires.  I see shapes and forms and figures, and interest.
           Look. Close.     Take.Your.Time.        Feel.It.

 These make me think 'Big City'.   I find them beautiful. Yes, I am unusual. I except that.

Perfect spot for a senior portrait or wedding shot, this old warehouse. What grabbed my attention was the broken glass, and when enhanced, the door inside showed up. I didn't see it until then.  Beauty is in the enhancement abilities of a computer I guess.  I could work in the building. Perfect studio! Little glass work first maybe. The color of the bricks. Just a photo however, but can you find beauty in a plain, very old, broken down, every day building?  

 This place, a small space between buildings has always caught my interest. I long to see the apartment at the top of those stairs. I love the grill at the bottom of the fire escape.  Just another day in the alley. My kind of paradise at times. (I once lived about 25 steps from here. )

Yes, I am creative and I go with the flow of my right brain.  I see beauty in puddles that reflect light , and dying leaves in the fall. I see beauty in spring, summer, night and day. I see beauty in color, and in black and white or brown and eggshell. It doesn't matter to me.  

But my reason for this blog? Just a nudge in the direction of 'Looking Beyond' the 'Landmarks', the hills valleys and mountains. Beyond the sunset and the sunrise.

Find Beauty In Every Little Thing

Find Beauty In Non Spectacular. 

Life can be non spectacular, so I think we should live it and make that 'non spectacular: AMAZING.