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Ghosts in a Frozen Puddle
I love getting really close to a good subject with a macro lens. From a normal human viewpoint this was a boring, ugly puddle, but at this scale, details and textures we normally don’t see with the naked eye are revealed while identifiable objects and features are largely excluded. This gives free reign to the imagination and such a photograph can be like a Rorschach inkblot. This is a sort of image I can stare at for hours and keep discovering new things in it. Because it takes time to fully evaluate such abstract imagery and shooting extreme close-ups can be difficult and physically awkward and uncomfortable, typically I find the image I want within my original shot only while viewing it later and I crop out extraneous content for my final composition. I photographed this at near 1:1 macro and cropped fairly heavily, effecting further magnification.
Pentax K10D, Sigma 70mm F/2.8 EX DG Macro @ f/8
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