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Autumn Aspen Gold Mine
The aspen leaf miner is a minute larva that has affected the region’s aspen trees profoundly in recent years. It tunnels through the cells of the leaf surface creating tight, wavy patterns and giving the leaf a dull, silvery appearance which makes the trees appear quite sickly. But after the chlorophyll had retreated, I was attracted by the more delicate translucence and added patterns of colour in the fallen leaves so I went to work with my macro lens at close focus. It was only when I later examined the images on the computer at 100% magnification that I saw the surface texture of the leaf, beyond the acuity of the naked eye but resolved by my lens. This gave me new direction and the image above is an extreme crop of the original to offer something close to that 100% view in a web image. It is a tribute to the Sigma 70mm macro lens that the image quality holds up so well at the pixel level. The uncropped image is below; the crop was taken from the left side, upper-centre.
Pentax K10D, Sigma AF 70mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro @ f/13
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