Food Fractals

There are mathmaticians and scientists and then there is a cabbage. Playing with the new camera - old, scond hand and limited if the truth be known, is encouraging further looking and sometimes offers me a moment of clarity even possibility of seeing something in a very different light.

The Earth produces such a bounty at this time of year here in the northern hemisphere that often the sense almost reek from the overload and it can be that gifts of sight sound touch taste and smell are hardly acknowledged let alone given a moments thought ot attention.

Learning to hold the camera as steady as I may, finding the distance for bringing something into focus and framing what I see to give me some sense of what I am feeling as I look at the object seems a very good practice for all other areas in my life.

Holding the camera with as little shake as possible when tripod is not to hand or possible to use involves becoming aware not only of the angle I am looking at the object but becoming aware of what angle my body is at, the rate of my breathing, the solidity of my placed feet and the possibility for holding the angle, breath and foot holds without taking concentration off the object seems a way to approach much else in my life.

My photos are not very good as yet but practice may make them more likely to be as least less blurred and  maybe eventually even clear. In the practice comes understanding and ability and sometimes what I might call skill, though what others might call it would almos certainly be open to interpretation:0)

As I stood trying to get a picture of a cabbage these thoughts flitted through my mind but much more than this was the awareness that in the simple act of trying I was gaining so much more.

Through each day letting a string of beads run through my fingers is way to become aware of what ngle I am seeing my world, where I have planted my feet, how my breath changes the shape and stillness of my body and thinking and I am brought to an awareness often that I am gaining so much more than what obviously delights my senses.

For a beautiful photo of the whole cabbage and glorious closeups plus an explanation of its scientific/mathmatical sense then you need to go here

Comments

[Cathy]

Yes, how we forget to 'be' in our bodies. Your awareness of your physical self as you capture whimsy in a photograph is something I'm going to try to be mindful of. I'm usually so busy trying to press the danged buttons that I forget the 'me' in the moment:0)
That is the funniest looking plant I've seen recently. Very fractally!