I am continuing to explore the geometries of leaf and background. Water oak leaves this time of year make such entrancing subjects. Only, with this photograph, I find myself drawn, instead, to the light beyond the leaf.
Feb 282014
Feb 172014
A single red water oak leaf in the morning sunlight, viewed against the forest background along Piney Woods Church Road: the image resolves itself into three spaces, like three lines of haiku.
Jan 122014
Bright mid-morning sunshine greeted my arrival at Piney Woods Church Road today. The road was no longer covered with flowing water, and yesterday’s water droplets were gone. Still, I found plenty to photograph, including various vines, resurrection ferns, and reflections in the water remaining in roadside ditches. Toward the end of my walk, a persimmon leaf, still attached to a sapling and still mostly dark green, beckoned me. I took out my +10 macro lens — one that actually has to be pressed into the subject of the image in order to achieve focus — and took several images of the leaf. The result is this leafscape, vibrant with color in the midst of a drab Georgia winter.
