Sometimes discovering beauty is as simple as changing perspective. While walking through Elm Creek Park, all Katy Humnick had to do was look up. As a matter of fact, Looking Up is the title of the image that ended up taking second place in the ‘Nature’ category of Maple Grove Magazine’s Focus on Maple Grove Photo Contest.
Humnick’s favorite photo subject is nature, especially waterfalls, landscapes and close ups of flowers. “There’s just something I find inspiring about God’s creation,” she explains. “And I like to show other people that through my photos.”
The 13-year-old was so inspired by this view of the trees, she wrote a poem (also titled Looking Up) for school based on the photo:
I look up to see a canopy of colors
Staring back down at me
I feel small as I stare at
The towering trees above me
Their crisp angles reaching sharply up
To touch the canvas of the sky
The sky that’s also above me
Suddenly I feel lowly as well as small
& Keep your eye on this page for more photos from Focus on Maple Grove contest winners and contestants to be published through December. The photos from the second contest will start running in 2012.
