
Myopic comfort
Self-limited perception
Confining the Self
It was cosy inside, looking out through the windows on a winter garden. Birds came to the feeder, rummaging for seeds. Camera poised, I tried to capture them through the glass. The mechanical ‘perfection’ of auto-focus is usually the most efficient way of snapping their rapid movements; it failed me. I caught only the glass and the foreground. A glimpse of distant beauty. Only a deliberate shift in focus allowed me to see true.

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Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Those machines do like to “correct” us. But I kind of like the shift in perspective too. (K)
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So do I…it can have its own beauty and, if nothing else, it makes us aware that there is room to shift.
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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thank you.
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You got a couple good ones despite the problem. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Sometime accepting what you are given is best 🙂
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Yes, yes, auto-focus can be very tricky, it seems, as if the camera would have its own stubborn mind. 😉
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And yet sometimes, even the auto-focus can give you gifts 🙂
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Well worth the effort 🌹
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🙂
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Yes 🌹
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