What we see depends on where we stand, sit, crawl or fly to see it. Think of a crawling baby's eye view of your house. It would be filled with chair and table legs, dust bunnies under sofas and beds, the grain of wood floors or texture of carpets and rugs. And how do you think you would seem to that child? If she or he could talk you'd probably learn more about the look and smell of your shoes than you'd want to know! So when I decided it was time to take my first photo of autumn, I tried to come up with a different point of view, one that I had not seen before. We're used to seeing flaming maple leaves framed against brilliant blue skies, twirling in midair or lying at our feet. But by placing my camera on the ground and using my remote shutter release, I was able to see this backlit leaf at eye-level, much as a worm might see it.

I'd like to share a comment that Kal Khogali (http://www.pbase.com/shangheye) posted on one of my recent photos. He wrote: "Art is about perspective, so it becomes infinite in my opinion. The same ordinary subject, but a different view. The more extraordinary that view the more artistic, and as such it begs the question what we believe is extraordinary. We all have to agree on some things being extraordinary, and it is the remainder (and by far the majority) that becomes the fodder of critics and fans."