It's often amazing the diversity of images I get involved with. Most of the time I'm shooting the big, even colossal works of nature. Take the Grand Canyon, certainly among the biggest of features one finds on this planet. I've made dozens of panoramas of the canyon, a few which I've already shown you (with more to come over the next few months). Or Yosemite or Bryce or Crater Lake ... they are all massive in scale. They are usually the images that get the most attention when posted on 500px or Flikr. That's because they are grand and impressive and have a major WOW factor. That's how it should be.
But I also shoot the small. You've seen a few ... raindrops on my truck's window or the Spruce cones would be another example. I love those shots because they show the beauty in the simplest of nature's many offerings. To not shoot them is to overlook a majority of the beauty around us. To not stop and admire the new growth on a Redwood tree would be a shame as it can be and often is amazing. So, next time you're somewhere spectacular, turn your eye toward the small and see the beauty that's all around you. It makes the greater beauty even more magnificent.
Humboldt Redwood Renewal
It was early summer when I hit the Humboldt Redwoods in northern California. But at the altitude where these majestic trees grow it was still spring and new growth was everywhere. It's almost iridescent against the dark green of the mature trees. You really have to be blind to miss it. I was wandering through these huge stands of trees and this bright green was all around me. So it was only natural that I'd turn my lens onto these little jewels and start shooting. I love this one because the light, softened by the shallow depth of field at f/4, frames the growth perfectly. A pristine gem on the smallest of scales.
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| Renewal - 35mm(1.6 crop),f/4,1/20 sec, ISO 100,license CC BY-NC 4.0 |
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