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Greetings, Hivers.
A friend once told me that we rarely find the streets where we live interesting. And he's right. I can't remember ever going out for a photographic walk near my home, which is rather curious because some friends have visited me and immediately spotted truly spectacular scenes. The same thing happens to me when I visit their neighborhoods.
We stop seeing what is part of our everyday lives. When things happen constantly, they become routine, and it's difficult to notice the situations that could make great photographs.
When you move away from your familiar surroundings, you suddenly start seeing striking images everywhere. A peeling wall, an elderly man sitting in a chair, waiting for who knows what, an interesting shadow, a ray of sunlight. Literally anything can catch your attention and end up becoming a spectacular photograph.
I think it has a lot to do with familiarity. Our brains learn to recognize what is ordinary and stop paying attention to it, as if there were nothing new left to discover. Yet all it takes is a change of neighborhood for something that seems completely ordinary to someone else to become, in our eyes, something worth photographing.
Perhaps the secret is learning to look at our own streets as if we had just arrived. Going out without expectations, walking without a destination, and discovering the scenes that have always been there but that familiarity prevents us from seeing.
In the end, we don't always need to change our surroundings to find good photographs. Sometimes, all we need is to change the way we look. Does this happen to you too? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Saludos hivers.
Un amigo me dijo una vez que casi nunca vemos interesante la calle del lugar donde vivimos. Y es cierto. No recuerdo una sola vez que haya hecho una salida fotogr谩fica cerca de casa, y es algo muy curioso porque algunos amigos me han visitado y enseguida ven verdaderas escenas espectaculares. Lo mismo me pasa cuando yo visito sus barrios.
Lo cotidiano no se ve. Las cosas, cuando suceden constantemente, se convierten en rutina y es muy dif铆cil reparar en las situaciones que podr铆amos fotografiar.
Cuando te mueves de tu entorno, autom谩ticamente empiezas a ver im谩genes impactantes por todos lados. Una pared desconchada, un anciano sentado en una silla, esperando qui茅n sabe qu茅, una sombra atractiva, un rayo de luz. Literalmente, cualquier cosa llama tu atenci贸n y puede terminar convirti茅ndose en una fotograf铆a espectacular.
Creo que tiene mucho que ver con la costumbre. Nuestro cerebro aprende a reconocer lo habitual y deja de prestarle atenci贸n, como si ya no hubiera nada nuevo que descubrir. Sin embargo, basta con cambiar de barrio para que aquello que para otros es completamente normal se convierta, ante nuestros ojos, en algo digno de fotografiar.
Quiz谩s el secreto est茅 en aprender a mirar nuestra propia calle como si acab谩ramos de llegar a ella. Salir sin expectativas, caminar sin rumbo y descubrir esas escenas que siempre estuvieron ah铆, pero que la costumbre nos impide ver.
Al final, no siempre necesitamos cambiar de lugar para encontrar buenas fotograf铆as. A veces basta con cambiar nuestra manera de mirar. 驴Les sucede lo mismo? Los leo.
"All photos were taken by me 
Technical data: Nikon camera: Nikon D700 Nikon lens: 50mm f1.4 p-ais; 105mm f2.5 p-ais; 55 f1.2; 35mm f1.8 G Translated by Deepl free version.7