I've been banging my head against a lot of walls recently. On a metaphoric level, the walls were built of bricks formed out of frustrations from personal, professional, and emotional issues. My own personal philosophy, at least what I say is my philosophy, is that it is easier to tear down walls if you know where the keystone is.
On that note, I've recently decided that I need to exercise my mind and start forcing myself to look at things from new angles. So, on a beastly hot and humid afternoon this past weekend, I decided to make a start by going out to photograph some real walls. To start, I headed for ruined mill on the banks of the Mississippi in Minneapolis. Somewhat poetically, I had only been there to snap one photo each of three different walls when the space was invaded by some two dozen people riding segways (a guided tour).
I let the heat and crowds frustrate me enough to quit for the day, and returned home. Understand, I have no real clues how my camera works nor do I have any photo editing tools other than those that came with my computer, but I decided I needed to follow through on my resolve to start seeing things from new angles. So I uploaded the photos and started playing around with them. Here is the original photo of the east wall of the mill.
Below the squiggle are the perspectives that came out of my "editing" process.
Even though I'm just getting started, it does seem clear there are a lot of details I didn't notice when I was on site. Here's hoping more perspectives will reveal themselves to me.