– Million dollar property eh.

One thing that I notice when I’m traveling is how I often appreciate the small details of an unfamiliar or foreign setting and feel compelled to crop and cature these with a camera as a record of its existence, with no use in mind than for posterity. To notice unconventional beauty in a scene who’s everydayness has lulled the natives into a dismissive attitude but what strikes me as extraordinary because of nothing more than being exotic to my own experience.

I’ve decided to do some suburban studies to document the places close to where I live in an attempt to rediscover my own space with fresh eyes. It’s a deliberate attempt to stop, look and appreciate my surroundings as places of beauty, magic and wonder, places that fueled my imagination as a kid and left me daydreaming waiting for busses as a teenager. I’ve notice myself doing a lot of passing by lately, postulating in very important thought without regard for that which I’m walking past, a trait I’m not to fond of fostering. 

The first is a documentation of an evening stroll down to the beach.

Capture

Nikon D2Xs, 17-55mm 2.8, Developed in Lightroom.

Post

None, I’m considering using these as background for some illustration work in the future.