Exploring a micro world with a camera is a form of escapism. In the never-ending cycle of different forms and patterns that compose matter, I can't help but want to study them in detail.
Permanency in photography allows preservation, and so the smallest or seemingly insignificant living organisms can have as significant a presentation. To capture the smallest forms, such as the leaflets of a tuft of moss (with a size not much larger than a squared 1/8" inch) and the structure that is revealed in the strands of leaf nodes.
Moss fibers, 2017. Macro digital photograph.
This pattern in the strand, which initially drove my curiosity, is so small that a very wide aperture and lots of light was needed. I am consistently finding a 8x10" light table, softened with tracing paper, to be the ideal studio for such a small still-life.
This Nature Study was a good exercise in my macro photography method, now I only aim to expand on my subject matter and put the content of the photographs into more meaningful context.
I'm not sure where they are going but, by finding new perspectives has always produces interesting images.
Moss fibers in warm light, 2017. Macro digital photograph.