How do you take a creative picture with a point-n-shoot in a dark school gym packed with kids ages 4 to 14? How do you avoid taking the same snapshot of your kids that everyone else there is taking? You do it by taking the picture from a completely different perspective.

In this case, from the perspective of an ant.

Earlier today I was talking with my friend, Drew, about Brian F. Peterson's book Learning to See Creatively. One of the exercises Brian puts you through is to shoot the same subject with the same lens but from a variety of heights and distances. From your belly to your tip toes. From near and far. All so that you learn about looking at things from a different perspective. Armed with a different outlook on the world, you can take even a dull, mundane rock and make it look interesting by providing a totally different perspective when making the image.

This image was made tonight at my daughter's first ever Spring Dance. As she and her friends danced together in a circle, I thought it'd be cool to see what these tiny dancers looked like from the perspective of an ant. I place my Canon PowerShot SD500 on the ground, asked them to tighten up their circle and look at the camera. The result is this cute group of faces that I'll cherish forever.

So the next time you're looking for something a little different, consider what the world around you would look like to an ant passing by and capture it!