Boundaries (Applied not Theoretical)

On finding out I was a keen photographer, a business acquaintance (Maurice), told me the following story over dinner, sometime in the early 2000s. 

Some years earlier he had accompanied an Inuit man, bringing him from a remote part of Alaska back to New York. 

The man had never been on a plane nor travelled before, but he had a camera. And he photographed everything, including all those things we think of as common-place: street lights, intersections, road signs, buildings, traffic, crowds. 

Everything was new to him, and everything was a photograph.

That story has stuck with me. When we travel to a new place, we see everything for the first time. We take lots of photos to record and share the experience with others and make sense of what we are seeing.

Today a trip to the shops in the rain. On the way home, a blip detour to a place I have not been to before, a place I am seeing for the first time.