in freeman patterson's book "photography and the art of seeing" he explores various barriers to seeing. he says "good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs but good photographic expression is impossible without it." also "good seeing begins with careful observation of what's around you."
when we find something that would make a "nice photo" we focus on that something and blur everything else. but if we look past the focused subject we find the beauty in the other things in the background which we know in the first place to be there, but for photographic purposes we blur them. then we fail to see that there's a naked man just behind the bushes.
I knew you didn't have a naked man in there, but I looked anyway just to make sure it wasn't the guy I saw years ago getting his mail in the buff. My son Christopher was with me (about 13 years old) and said in disgust, "Mom, that man was naked!"
