i thank You God for most this amazing day

"It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way."

~Warren Ellis

I love macro photography.

There is something so special about being able to see so closely and clearly what your naked eye cannot discern. It feels a bit like looking into an otherworldly landscape that is at once alien yet familiar.

There have been a lot of blogs lately jumping on the macro picture wagon. While most of the photos on my camera are of the jewelry variety (always shot with macro), with the occasional baseball or dance picture thrown in, I would love to jump in an participate just to see what I could do. So last week, Friday the 13th, I took my camera on a walk with me in along the banks of the Wisconsin River and set the lens on the macro setting. I am quite certain that people thought I was ridiculous as I marched right up to trees and pointed the camera inches away! I was surprised at what I got when I got back home and logged these into my Flickr account.

This gray day seemed devoid color. But I couldn't be more wrong. Just the variety of greens was staggering!
And I love how the macro makes textures the star.

I thought that these images should be accompanied by my most favorite poem by poet e.e. cummings.

Enjoy!



{this is the one and only birch tree on this stretch and each side was different}



i thank You God for most this amazing



{my favorite shot of hostas in front of my house... i didn't even know there was dew until i took this off the camera!}



day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

{new buds - in front of a mossy tree}

and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

{pussy willows in a jar at the main grain bakery just begging to be touched}

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

{a notty tree]

(i who have died am alive again today,

{the great divide - looks like an otherworldly relief map}

and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth

{like a 3 inch square forest}

day of life and love and wings: and of the gay

{willow buds blowing in the breeze}

great happening illimitably earth)

{this looks alien, or like a coral reef - one of my favorite shots!}

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

{the bark on this tree was paper thin and all rusty, curling every which way}

breathing any-lifted from the no

{little islands of moss on the deck at my office}

of all nothing-human merely being



{daffodil}



doubt unimaginable You?

{dahlia from my mom's present for mother's day}

(now the ears of my ears awake and

{tulips standing guard - they are my sister's favorite flower and make me think of her!}

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

 

e.e. cummings

 

(all photos by me with a little help from Picnik ;-)

 

Now I am definitely off to treat myself to some macro filters in lieu of an expensive macro lens!

 

 

This stuff will be addicting for sure!