Sometimes you can find inspiration where you least expected. My inspiration today was coming from my four year old son. On his third birthday we gave him a point-n-shoot camera as a present. Since then he has been photographing his day-to-day life – people and things that surround him.
Today was a beautiful warm spring day. I offered him to go to botanical garden to photograph flowers. He happily agreed. On the way there he was photographing all kind of ordinary things that we got used to: “Lake!” – click, click, click, “Boat!” – click, click, click, “Puffy cloud!” – click, click, click.
Then we walked the paths of botanical garden taking photographs of flowers. He saw a mom with a son about his age and asked me:
– Why they were not photographing trees and flowers.
– Maybe they did not know how. – I told him.
– It can’t be. – He said and I asked him why.
His answer was:
– Because that’s the way the Nature meant to be.
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I envy him, I envy his ability to see extraordinary in ordinary, I envy the voyage of discovery he is going thru. He teaches me to see the world around, see thru his eyes, see it in an awe inspiring way.
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Here is today thru my son’s eyes:
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