I was planning on posting this Photography Open Thread next Friday but didn't see any posted today, so I decided to add it now for any of you who would like to participate in one today.

35 years ago, as my interest in exploring nature grew into almost insatiable desire to walk in the woods of a very beautiful part of Connecticut where I was living, so did my desire to document what I was seeing --- enter the camera. It was primarily light and texture that drew my attention. Black and white film seemed to capture it best for me. Serendipitously, there was a photographic workshop nearby that had a darkroom and teaching facility where I learned to develop my film and more closely critique my work. It was there that I was introduced to photographers whose work inspired the direction of my own photography.

For the next 10 years every spare minute was spent in the landscape looking through the lens or under a cloth of increasingly larger cameras, working in makeshift darkrooms. Then I had a daughter, who shifted my attention from the landscape to the homescape. When she was 14, and confidently independent I went back to taking photography more seriously again. My teachers at that time, gently but determinedly pushed me away from my exclusive and purist B&W landscape photography toward a more contemporary approach. For that I am eternally grateful. It has made me more receptive photographically and in every other way to a more yielding and inclusive perspective. Even though I photograph in colour now with a small digital camera, and more diverse subject matter, the images often end up resembling landscapes anyway.

I have only one of my photographs hanging on my wall. It was photographed on one of my very favourite islands and was a formidable experience in my early work. I printed this image in the darkroom and thought okay, that’s nice but nothing special. I hung it to dry, and then placed it on the table, figuring it would join the building pile of rejects. A little later I passed by it, seeing it from a different angle, (a 90 degree shift) and in that moment I thought, wow. It took a little shaking up of my rigid belief that it wasn't valid because it was not the way I originally saw or photographed it. But I did, and to this day, 34 years later, it is still a favourite photograph …

Which led me to choose the following as the subject of this weeks photography open thread - How an image can be viewed unconventionally, or from different ‘angles’, and in the process show you something you might have otherwise missed, and can learn from.

Do you have a photograph that you might have overlooked as a mistake or mistakenly overlooked - a photo that in some way has taught you something valuable? Because they do happen, for all of us who lift a camera up to our eyes and invite the mysterious forces that exist beyond our limited sight.

As always, post whatever photos you'd like to share.

ps - my downloading speed is pitifully slow, so responses will be (hopefully tolerably) delayed. Also, digital technology is still a mystery to me, so please ask questions, but I will defer to anyone more knowledgeable in the area to answer ; )