Clouds and buildings

I know from personal experience that when you are self-centered it dulls your perception because you are only interested in how things are related to you, and not the meaning they have for each other. This attitude limited me as a photographer, because for one thing, it made it hard for me to relate a foreground element to its background in a meaningful way. As I learned that I would really take care of myself by being interested in what is not myself, I went from tunnel vision to a wider perspective.

For example, I got excited when I saw these mobile, soft clouds in the background drift over hard, fixed buildings in the foreground. I photographed them with a 35mm wide angle lens because I wanted to exaggerate the curve of the clouds and the angles of the rooftops so that they would seem to meet in a friendly fashion.