Very Close IMG_0401
First, I thank you all for your good wishes, and am happy to say my cats are both responding...slowly... to the antibiotics and are no longer in danger of dying. Very weak but starting to eat and drink and groom.
Now, about this photo:
As some of you know, I got interested in Macro Photography while still a child, back in the 1950s.... long before I had any equipment to actually MAKE macro images.
The story goes: My mother went to a seminar about wildflowers (she taught me all the Ohio wildflowers). The room was full of mostly ladies. The first slide came up on the screen and it was a close up of a wealth of golden petals and exquisite little curly-cues. My mom said the room of ladies all gasped in wonder. Then the speaker told them all it was a close up of a dandelion. My mom said how everyone was amazed that there was such beauty to be found by setting aside our familiarity with something, and, instead, looking at it closely.
I wanted, from the time I heard that story, to produce photos like that. I was born very near sighted... close to being legally blind... but, of course, not blind at all. However, my eyesight meant I could really get close to things.... macro vision I now call it. So I spent the first two thirds of my life seeing things very close up... things I wished I could photograph.
Now, I can... well, sort of. I still don't have a macro lens, and I wish I had "micro" equipment, but I don't know if I ever will!
So, here, is the dandelion, taken with reverse lens macro... in honor of my mother and her inspiring stories and lessons which led me to a path I enjoy greatly.
Very Close IMG_0401
First, I thank you all for your good wishes, and am happy to say my cats are both responding...slowly... to the antibiotics and are no longer in danger of dying. Very weak but starting to eat and drink and groom.
Now, about this photo:
As some of you know, I got interested in Macro Photography while still a child, back in the 1950s.... long before I had any equipment to actually MAKE macro images.
The story goes: My mother went to a seminar about wildflowers (she taught me all the Ohio wildflowers). The room was full of mostly ladies. The first slide came up on the screen and it was a close up of a wealth of golden petals and exquisite little curly-cues. My mom said the room of ladies all gasped in wonder. Then the speaker told them all it was a close up of a dandelion. My mom said how everyone was amazed that there was such beauty to be found by setting aside our familiarity with something, and, instead, looking at it closely.
I wanted, from the time I heard that story, to produce photos like that. I was born very near sighted... close to being legally blind... but, of course, not blind at all. However, my eyesight meant I could really get close to things.... macro vision I now call it. So I spent the first two thirds of my life seeing things very close up... things I wished I could photograph.
Now, I can... well, sort of. I still don't have a macro lens, and I wish I had "micro" equipment, but I don't know if I ever will!
So, here, is the dandelion, taken with reverse lens macro... in honor of my mother and her inspiring stories and lessons which led me to a path I enjoy greatly.