tylik

Sometimes I think I need to get a decent camera. A small, sturdy, decent camera. Hmmm... I wonder where that is on the priority list compared with, say, a microscope?

This is a picture I've tried to take before, I think. Here, or elsewhere. Something about the sense of it being a shrine, and the contrast between the sweeping upward lines and the brown cubical rot. I took this one from my knees, and it felt very right.

Actually, a lot of the pictures I took were of dead wood, or stumps. I love the shapes of the decaying stumps, and the sinuous curves of the roots of the trees growing upon them. Sadly, again, my camera is just too limited to do the sight justice. You lose a lot of the geometry of the stump underneath the roots. (Another shot had a much more dramatic view of the roots, I think, but the lighting didn't come out.)

As much as I love wild, relatively untouched places, I find the interface where they interact with people very interesting. I love watching badly treated areas recover. And I love the themes of death and rebirth with the nurse logs...