Carriage Horse & Plaza
I came across this passage in the book: Meditation by Eknath Easwaran.
“In a glorious outburst Thomas Traherne, the English mystic, tries to put into words the marvelous, ever-fresh appearance of the world to one whose eyes have been opened:
The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold… The green tree, when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported and ravished me; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap… Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels…
Eternity was manifested in the light of the day, and something infinite behind everything appeared.”
That’s pretty much how I feel when things are going good with my photography. That there is something beautiful behind the ordinary but that you need ‘fresh-eyes’ to discover it.
I wouldn’t say that everything is beautiful - I haven’t progressed that far in my journey. I see plenty of ugliness in the world. But I suppose that as I become more perfected (how long this will take I can’t predict) - I may be able to see beauty behind the ugliness. For now I can only see it in the ordinary scenes of life.