Why I take photos.

I take photos because I like to see things from a different perspective. Most of life we view from our normal standing height, usually viewing everything from above. We've grown pretty accustomed to the way things look and many times overlook something extraordinary because we've seen it a thousand times and think we know everything about it. Simply by changing our perspective, we can completely change our environment and reveal what little we actually know about the objects and places we see everyday. Remember as a child when the world seemed endless and full of wonder and amazement? Remember exploring new places and the joy that came from it? As adults we've lost a lot of that passion to discover our world, we don't have time to explore or to try and see things differently. We "know" our world and we walk and drive blindly through it everyday. What if we were to take a minute to explore it? To drive down the road we've seen a million times and have always wondered where it goes, climb the fire escape that is just beckoning us to take a chance and see what happens, walk down an alley we've never been, or just go outside lay in the grass and look up? Our world as we know it would become larger and once again we'd feel free and curious of our surroundings. All that we thought we knew would be replaced by a desire to learn more and to once again challenge our minds to experience a world that we thought we knew but never really see.

~Nate