Traveling the US 2008: April 26th - The World from MY Camera

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

April 26th - The World from MY Camera

As we travel through the US on our trip, Clive and I see so many different things. And sometimes I really do mean DIFFERENT things. Clive has a tendency to see the "big picture", while I also try to take in the "little picture". Things look so different through the eyes of a close up lens. Little things become BIG things when caught in the magnification capabilities of a good digital camera on macro setting!!!! Suddenly it's not just a forest.... it's a tiny spring flower peeking it's head through a nest of dead leaves left over from last year's splendor. It's not a whole tree, but the texture of it's bark. The splash of a fish jumping in fear of my shadow! A tiny squirrel foraging for food in the undergrowth. Instead of a magnificent mansion, it's the proud peacock strutting his stuff for the camera. Sometimes just turning the camera away from the crowd will let you spot something as neat as a cat who thinks because his head is hidden, he's invisible!!!

I love looking at the world through the eyes of my camera. Most of the time I just pass by my "weird" pictures, because they are not telling the story of the day's adventures. Today I was going through the different albums trying to figure out where I was at in the blog, and I realized that I had a collection of photos that made up their own category. I have picked out what I think are the best of the photos my camera's wandering eye has captured. I don't know the names of all the plants and flowers, but that doesn't lessen my enjoyment of them. The pictures look best when enlarged as you can pick out all the tiny little natural details in each scene which caught my camera's attention.

Nature is a wonderful thing. Everywhere you look, it is painting another beautiful picture. The greatest thing about it is that there is no end to it!!!!