Macro

The bulbous sides of two of those large jars in Mac 29

Now we start getting really lovely effects from the pale sunlight coming in from the left side of the shot. All those smears and hue differences, blending into a melange of interesting subterranean-type looks. Repetition is one of the many common features of the way nature organizes itself right round this awesome Planet Earth we all equally share (I know it is not actually, within all our experiences, equally shared, right now, but that’s because of the ego choices made by each one of us but the reality is, that we all have an equal chance to share this stupendous Planet Together, for All of Our Benefit and Mutual & Willing Helpingness, if we will all just agree to do that and heal whatever needs healing, then look after it all, Together, so not One Single Human Being Remains unnecessarily disadvantaged - by Any One. Then we could repeat that, generation after generation instead of the hurtful and fear-ridden choices we so far insist the younger generations, all around us, inherit from us.

Beautiful interior light in this Green Jar

The stunning interplay of lights in this large green glass jar is something out of the Aurora Borealis or a Cousteau deep sea exploration movie. What riches we are all surrounded by all of our Times.

Man-made fish lookalike

This is large enough not to be a macro shot at all but I like it in the sense it is put together, painstakingly, out of small things which someone saw in their minds’ eye and knew they were turning into a nice fish ‘thing’ to go in a bathroom - and they did.

A Spanish Galleon at the Ocean Floor !

Exactly what it looks like to me ! This one’s travelling - á la Pirates of The Caribbean - subterraneanly moving onwards. The shape is extraordinarily like that, to me. See the masts and all that rigging around them everywhere ? Amazing and wonderful what light can do when it shines through glass shapes !

A discarded front edge of a small boat in a boatyard.

This piece of wood off a small boat - now lying in one small piece on the ground between discarded small boats of all kinds - once sailed proudly at the front starboard or port side of small boat, proclaiming to the world that this is a wonderful way to choose ! It became a shot that I hope encourages us all to take that wisdom to heart and live it out full while we have it to do !

Frozen ice pieces imbedded in a frozen river in NW Scotland

These ice crystals lie in and out of the frozen surface of what was a babbling brook in springtime and their shapes and hues are things you could dive into or stories you could create because of them. Just wonderful the constant wonderment Nature offers up to us all - all of the time.

Glass reflecting light

The base of two stem glasses showing the way the light bounces and stays on all the differing parts of the surfaces here. The letter ‘S’ and the small bits of associated text are from the makers’ mark on the base of one of these two circular drinking glasses. Much more interesting this close-up though.

Glass objects in light and shade

Worlds within worlds here. The base of a heavy swirly glass jar catching almost sucking up light slowly as a long exposure allows the light to “travel & grow”, while still preserving something of the original reflections on the glass surfaces themselves. I give these descriptions because I assume folk might want to know what they are looking at but in truth, for me, the fascination is the interplay of light and shade, texture and architecture irrespective of what particular item is in the frame. It’s the end result of the play of light that is such a wonderment, not the ‘reasons’ that caused it all to be seen.

Heavy net curtains in the last very deep orange sunlight of the day.

The home that these lovely old curtains had hung in was being cleared out so new owners could buy it and move in. The days and months, years and moment, these curtains have seen, is somehow encapsulated in a sadness in the light and a vividly graphic passing memory of time-spent-here, that will soon be over. A memorial, in this moment of capturing this shot, of so much that had gone before, within these walls, and behind these net curtains.

The base of a tall glass

This graceful glass was on the top of a table in an eating place, reflecting the small ceiling lights all around it. Extraordinarily wonderful what light can show us as it reflects from within different surfaces and from many angles.

The edge of a glass covered wooden latticework table

As the rain eased it left all these wonderful droplets all over the glass tops of the outside tables at this eating place where I had shot the previous indoor tall glass base. Such great shapes, textures and repetitive architectures here. I’ve used this shot on the front of a notebook I produce and it works just fine as an interesting thought-provoking look, and feel. (you almost want to try and brush the water droplets off the surface of the book !)

Fireworks in night sky

This isn’t really a macro shot but it could be if you didn’t know it was exploding stuff a hundred feet above you ! It asks us to ask the question re what is it we are really seeing when we look at an image, of any kind, and can we relate to it without being told the terms of reference that basically tell us what it is we are supposed to agree we are seeing. So much of life seems to be telling us to agree with whatever it is someone else has so authoritatively said wheras most of the people we admire in their many different walks of life are the very people who have learned to evaluate for themselves, make their own decisions and forge a path that maybe not too many others, or indeed maybe, any others, have so far seen - and when we also then see it, we call it ‘obvious’ and ‘why didn’t I see that before!?’ This firework shot could be a microcosm of something small, and if you were told it was, would you so quickly disagree, until you had worked it out for yourself? Nice shot, either way.

Water after the rain.

This is the gentle curve of a small metal handrail at one end of a small wooden bridge over a tiny creek on a large woodland estate. The muted hues in the low light have a nice feel to them with the reflections brought into life with a circular polarizer. Of course, it could also be an old fashioned solid bicycle wheel if you looked a t it quickly ! There’s quiet babbling brook under there so it has a peaceful feel to it, in or out of the rain.

Deep inside one of these Green Glass Jars

This is the most awesome version of all of these green jar looks, for me. I could not really believe it when I saw it and then to be able to get a shot of it - that really is an amazing thing. Such hues here, such unknowns and potentials not even really understood yet but “something is going on here” - and that’s for sure ! Light and glass - and Love.

Universes, Galaxies here maybe.

The side of a large glass jar when the light almost disappears from it and the darks of the unlit interior start taking over viz., it all suddenly becomes almost non-reflective all over itself, except where the light still retains a pale wash. Could be some outer galaxies somewhere under extreme long range magnification.

An upended glass tumbler

An everyday clear glass tumbler picking up the red light reflections from a coloured vase nearby, as the sunlight through the window bounces off it and seems to infuse this glass with inbuilt colours it does not have. The light picks up swirls and moments of the glass, as it was as it originally cooled, as it was being formed -most of which are still in there, invisible mostly, except when the light does this sort of forensic bouncing off shape and texture, hue and architecture.

A deeper look into the green glass jar.

This is the same glass jar to be found in Mac 1,2 & 4 plus 20 and 26 to 30. The tears of what was once molten liquid before it cooled that way are a lively reminder this was molten liquid being shaped into a final large glass jar that could be used for all sorts of things, and beautifully so. Extraordinary the hues and textures, play of light and shade that sunlight can bring into being inside this awesome piece of creative art.

The definitive Spanish Galleon

Here’s the more complete shot than the one in Mac 4.]You can see all the important shapes that tell you this is a serious Man O’ war on some subterranean mission which will not be denied ! Wonderful shapes here - all create by light and

A B&W version of the shot in Mac 22

This square clear glass tumbler is doing the same sort of reflective lighting thing the upended glass tumbler is doing in Mac 18 - only in Black & White. The colour version in Mac 22 shows off the rich reds and golds as the light bounces off other items nearby and crashes through the natural clear glass infusing it with all these wonderful hues that are simply not there in the glass itself !

A Colour version of the shot in Mac 21

This square clear glass tumbler is doing the same sort of reflective lighting thing the upended glass tumbler is doing in Mac 21- only in colour This version shows off the rich reds and golds as the light bounces off other items nearby and crashes through the natural clear glass infusing it with all these wonderful hues that are simply not there in the glass itself !

Crocodile skin maybe - but not.

This close up of part of the side of a papier mache flower holder gives off all sorts of ideas of what it could be but in real life it is an unpretentious and not vey interesting bland pale grey vase that looks substantial but can be picked up with a couple of fingers it is so light. Here,. It could be the side of a perilous mountain or rockface or the side of something big and dangerous far under the water. Cells within cells - everything is.

Graceful sides of flower vases

The late late afternoon sunlight almost all gone now but gracing these smooth sides of flower vases with a patina and hues that enhance beautifully shape and texture, architecture and the hidden potential within our imaginations which gets sparked by seeing only a part of the whole right now, and having to ‘see’ the rest of it in our own inner vision. That’s what Faith ‘is’, after all.

Graceful side of part of a flower vase

The late late afternoon sunlight almost all gone now but gracing these smooth sides of a flower vase with a patina and hues that enhance beautifully shape and texture, architecture and the hidden potential within our imaginations which gets sparked by seeing only a part of the whole right now, and having to ‘see’ the rest of it in our own inner vision. That’s what Faith ‘is’, after all.

The bottom right hand quadrant of the jar in Mac 27

The sunlight less direct here but with some bounce on the outside surface of some of this bit of it and beautiful darker melding hues, shapes and textures in here. You could dive into it if it were a rockpool offshore near Portofino or somewhere similar !