Sliding doors

The Doorstep Mile

Sliding doors

An innocuous decision can set off a ripple effect that changes your life, like the butterfly effect or a sliding doors moment. One choice, two directions for your life.

Scene: The kitchen table, rain falling

1. It would be wonderful to take good photographs. I’d love to capture the memories of my daughter growing up and our lovely holidays together.
2. I can’t afford a big camera. I’m not artistic. My photos are always rubbish.
3. The End.

Scene: The kitchen table, windows open and birds singing

1. It would be wonderful to take good photographs. I’d love to capture the memories of my daughter growing up and our lovely holidays together.
2. I can’t afford a big camera. I’m not artistic. My photos are always rubbish. But I do love looking at beautiful photography. I am going to start following more photographers on Instagram.
3. Look! This photographer takes all her photos with the same phone as mine. She doesn’t use an expensive camera.
4. Hmmm… these portraits are fabulous. It’s interesting how she fills the frame much more than I do. I need to get closer and make each photo count.
5. The golden hour? Let me Google that. Aha! So that is the secret of glowing landscape photography. I need to get up in the hills for sunrise, rather than snoozing through it.
6. ‘What’s that you say? I’m lucky to have such nice photographs of my daughter? That I must be so artistic and have an expensive camera?’

Over to You:

• When have you shied away from doing something because it wouldn’t be perfect?
• Would ‘good’ have been a preferable outcome to not done at all?

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