2.27.16 Zooming out, zooming in

 Perspective in photography is identical to perspective in our lives. At times, we are aware of the big picture. 

     Other times, we become so interested, so excited or so distressed by what is happening in one corner of our lives, that we zero in, lose tract of the fact that this view in fact is only one aspect of the whole , and often enough , if we're upset , become lost, rolling around this small vantage point, as if In fact it was the whole deal. 

     Akin to the elephant joke, where each blind person describes the animal as only the foot or the tail or the back, unaware of the actuality of the whole being.

     So often we remain in those small stuck places, even feeling somewhat comforted by the annoying constriction, until we either get so miserable or tired of the small stilted universe we've unconsciously consigned ourselves to , and erupt .... only to discover our grand big unwieldy full life once again.