DAY 51 - It's Okay to want something different

The other day I came across a statement that made an impact on me. It said:

This "underdeveloped" country is not inappropriate in any way. It has
different desires and different standards, and it is not lesser than -- it
is just different. We did not all come to do it the same way. We did not
all come to be alike. We came as a diverse bunch of people
wanting different experiences.

It's okay to think differently and see differently. And it is okay to be different tomorrow from what you are today. Now THAT is a reassuring thought. Sometimes I think consistency and routine limits you in certain aspects of your life.

There are some images that I feel are just right when they come out of the camera that I hardly do any post-production/photoshop work on them. The maximum I would do is color correct it (even the stalwarts did it :)

Then there are some images that I see very differently from what they actually are and I'd itch to turn them on its head. Yet I wouldn't go down that road simply because I thought that I was not doing the right thing as a photographer by projecting something different from reality.

That's not how the pioneers did it or so I thought. And if I did it I wouldn't be a photographer worth my salt.

Yet, I would keep seeing the image very differently in my head. And sometimes after silencing the voices in my head I would sit down and turn the image on its head. And the end result would make me happy.

And when you are THAT happy whatever you are doing can't be wrong. :)

Now I have made peace with it.

I say to myself, it is okay to be different and it is okay to see things differently from what others see. I just want different experiences in life.

This image is that of a flower bud. But the minute I saw it through my viewfinder I knew I wasn't seeing a flower bud but something else....something entirely different....it's okay I guess :)