I deliberately set out with my camera after supper tonight to try to capture something new for the blog after a slew of zoo pictures. And, yet, my best shots of the night came from wandering the same patch of land that produced the yellow flowers pictured in the post which immediately preceded the zoo shots. Originality aside, I suppose there is a nice sort of symmetry in that. I did discover that some of these flowers actually seem to close at night, which I did not know before. And, quite simply, these shots appear here because they are rather iconic of a major facet of my aesthetic–trying to find beauty in dimness. And if nothing else I need the reminder that that can be done, photographically and in that rather more important endeavor called life.
Amen. Encountering the natural world with curiosity (e.g., I didn’t know those flowers close at night!) is the pair of red ruby slippers for the solipsist, and instead of waking up in Kansas, we find ourselves so near to our creator that wonder (awe), and humility (joy) are organoleptic. Trust me on this one: I’m in med school.
Keep on rockin’ those pics, amigo.