Posted April 19th, 2009

Resinous Old Man

This is another macro shot of the same tree trunk that provided the subject of the April 7th Feature Photo. One of the rewards of macro photography is that one can find many distinctly different images within inches of one another. With imagination, you might also find many different images within the one photograph. The lack of surrounding context and the unfamiliarity of details at this scale provide great potential for abstraction. I hesitate to title an image like this by identifying something I see in it; for that matter, I hesitate to identify what the subject really is. You might see something completely different and I don’t want my labels to stifle your imagination. Let loose your creative mind and explore your own psyche when you look at something like this. I took the photo, ... you can complete the image.
Pentax K10D, Sigma AF 70mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro @ f/13