I refer to a mundane scene, in the good sense of the term mundane linked to photography, referring to any scene or element that is part of our everyday life or routines. Beauty, balance, harmony, or a unique scene can be found in any place around us. To take great photographies is not required to travel far away, but simply to look at your surroundings in a different way.
There are many elements in the streets that are endlessly photographed such as windows, doors, lampposts, flowers, trees, etc and all of those are perfect examples of mundane photography. Focusing on specific elements or subjects may be a good way to initiate in this type of photographies.
More complex scenes or compositions with different elements can also create great images. In those cases, to look for a pattern or specific feature we want to photograph may be very helpful to define the image.
For example, colours, light, geometrical shapes, or surface textures may play a relevant role when deciding to take a shot for a certain scene as those will help us to identify what we want to capture into our shot, or to define the mentioned pattern. The great power of everyday life photography actually lies on the fact of attracting interest, admiration or contemplation on an element than otherwise we would have completely skipped from our attention.
This type of photography is the one that also invites the viewer to learn to look in a different manner, and appreciate the beauty, interest, emotion, reflection or whatever we aim to transmit with the image. The viewer may be surprised in many cases by the power the photograph owns on its own, and distancing it from whatever the subject itself is.