The 43 images that are presented in this book were chosen from over a thousand photographs taken in York, PA from the beginning of September through October 2014. My goal was to see what I could see when I set aside my everyday distractions. With my Cannon Rebel XSi, I set out to capture a new way of seeing the spaces and objects around me. I took the time to get up close to or to look at things in different ways. No matter how big or small, I wanted the details of what was around me to emerge. The poem presented at the beginning of the book is a Choka, a form of Japanese poetry. The poem describes what we do every day and offers a path to something different—a shifted focus. I decided to add a fact, saying, or quote, to each image to tell something interesting about that photo’s content.
