This weekend I took a few days away out of London for the first time in over five months due to lockdown. Part of that is to change perspective, to experience and view life from a different angle.
In photography, an ultra-wide-angle lens is called a “fisheye”, as, like the eye of a fish, in seeing a picture from a really wide angle, the edges of the picture become distorted. The photo above is one I took the other day in Lavenham in Suffolk. I am amused by how much it looks like a fisheye lens photo as if the house is distorted by the camera lens.
However, the reality is that it really is a “bent house”. Lavenham is full of “crooked houses“. It was a pleasure to unexpectedly come across these sights in Lavenham, almost every street had multiple crooked houses, visually shifting my perspective over and over.
Seeing things from different perspectives is a recurring theme for my writing as with my own lifelong learnings as coach and sounding board.
As I write this, am about to return to London after a few days in the country. Fresh sea air, gorgeous sunsets unblemished by summer smog and air pollution, dark nights without light pollution and more.
I love London, but I also really love the country. As we all so commonly do when we take a break like this, right now I’m musing on moving to the country. Now that would be a shift in perspective 🙂