Posted May 16th, 2013

The Lightness of Spring’s Release

We are having a very late spring in the Yukon and there is still patchy snow around my home, but the long days and brilliant sunshine impart that wonderful feeling of spring nevertheless. This image of a fallen leaf emerging from the melting snow was taken in the evening, backlit by the low sun to produce specular highlights in the recrystallized snow grains. Photographed close up with the aperture of my macro lens wide open to provide shallow depth-of-field and render the out-of-focus highlights as circles, the result was a spectacular light show.
Pentax K-5, Kiron 105mm f/2.8 macro @ f/2.8