I arrived at Piney Woods Church Road this morning a bit bleary after a late night tutoring and grading online students in the universities where I teach. I was hopeful that something fascinating would come my way to photograph. I am still figuring out my new macro lens, and I strolled up and down the road, in search of subjects. A small gold fly was somewhat obliging, but otherwise, there was nothing to explore but green leaves. I never tire, though, of the patterns of light and shadow on leaves, particularly when they are backlit early and late in the day. So I wandered about, figuring out manual focus on my lens and taking lots of pictures of leaves. My favorite of the lot is the one below, a close-up of two leaflets of poison ivy. The space between them evokes a river as seen on a satellite image, with the leaflets forming the adjacent land.
whoa! I don’t believe I can do anything like that with my camera.
Robin, thanks so much for the kind words, but I in turn am blown away by some of your cool Photoshopped work on your own blog!