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My kitchen window sill always delights with its gift of autumn’s light in the late afternoon.  After a lesson on focusing and composition by a photo friend I was absolutely delighted with the technical accomplishment of shooting a shiny object in sunlight without overexposure and the bonus of seeing ordinary items in a new way.  It had been a long afternoon and  I started to put the camera away.  My teacher, a kind but hard taskmaster, said:  “its nice , but what else could you do?”  I didn’t want to change anything, but reluctantly shifted things around a bit to this …

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There were several lessons that day but along with a more interesting image, I wondered what it would look like if we could perhaps view something or someone from a new perspective and see more than we thought was there?

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