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Vantage Point

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“If the photographer could not move his subject, he could move his camera. To see the subject clearly–often to see it at all–he had to abandon normal vantage point, and shoot his picture from above, or below, or from too close, or too far away, or from the back side, inverting the order of things’ importance, or with the nominal subject of his picture half hidden. from his photographs, he learned that the appearance of the world was richer and less simple than his mind would have guessed. He discovered that his pictures could reveal not only the clarity but the obscurity of things, and that these mysterious and evasive images could also, in their own terms, seem ordered and meaningful.” 

— from ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by John Szarkowski

If photography has taught me anything at all, it’s that unexpected angles often tell the most spectacular stories. Tell me, when was the last time you were forced to switch up your vantage point? Please do share an image or a story with us today. 

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  2. I wanted to get my lunch yesterday with those arches in the background.Hello they are famous! I rarely eat there but ive been wanting to try the peppermint cocoa. It did not disappoint at all!!! im hooked! So my camera went down on my table and took the photo itself. I couldnt get an angle I liked with it all in,so I let the camera do it for me and loved how it turned out 😀

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbsga/6422243045/

  3. Same goes with life. Photography has taught me nearly everything I need to know, even only on this amateur stage, which is to see from different angle. New perspectives.

  11. This shot I achieved above my head. I was not tall enough and wanted a shot so I raised the camera above my head and I was pleasantly surprised.