Tilt-Shift Photography – what do you think? I think it is adorable! It reminds me of an excursion I went on in primary school where we visited a town made out of miniature models. I used the entire disposable camera film that my parents gave me for the trip on these mini-marvells.
Tilt-shift also reminds me of what God must see from above 🙂 We are so small and busy and all over the place….like little ants. So many people wandering all over the landscape, how cool to spot yourself in one of these pics.
I remember talking to my class about one of the reasons God came as Jesus to be with us. It went something like this – “Imagine you are God and all the people in the world are ants. You are above them, looking down at what the little ants are up to. You can see they are so focussed on what they are doing, and busying themselves with providing themselves with what they need. As God, you can also see what lies ahead of them – dangers and obstacles. You can see that some of the ants are making wrong choices and heading in the direction of danger or hard times. You care so much about these ants (cause you made them) and you don’t want one single ant to get hurt, so you begin calling down to them! They can’t hear you, as they are too busy doing their own thing,and they never look upwards at you. Even if they could hear your voice, they wouldn’t be able to understand you. So the ONLY way you can save them and tell them how the choices they are making in their ant-life are causing or going to cause them harm, you decide to become a tiny, little ant – just like them. You go down as an ant, they see you (cause you look like them), they can hear you (cause you are speaking ‘ant’). You begin to teach them the right way and hope that when you go, they will remember you.”
Somehow, when I look at tilt-shift photographs, it reminds me of this story.
UNEARTHING THE SPUD 