089 - Street Walking

089 - Street Walking
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This is another in my cycle of summer road shots - finding pleasure on the way to and from work. We waste so much time and energy hating the modern world, but I say it is time we learned to appreciate what we have created in spite of its imperfections.

I just cannot get enough of the way the light reflects off the road at the beginning and end of the day, and I know that most other people are seeing only objects that they recognise as objects. The sun on the road becomes nothing more than a nuisance.

If we see a car, the brain says 'car' and then attempts to subcategorize through colour, make and all the rest. What, though, if we had not seen a car before, what categorizing would our brains do then?

Instead of looking at the categorizable objects, look instead at the uncategorized, then you will notice things like the sun reflecting on the road.