Heat, Shoots & Leaves!

It was a good time to be in Dublin recently if you like your sunshine to be hot and bright, and your day to be as balmy as the tropics, a phenomenon that is about as rare as a blue moon, or indeed a blue sky, in these parts. It was nice, too, to have the camera to hand in case the sun took it upon itself to shed any new light on any old thing while I spent the afternoons gadding around.

There's a golden rule in photo-journalism which demands that the photojournalist gets in as close as is possible to his or her subject if the shot is to be of any value or interest. Strangely, when this is applied to lazy days lounging between the gaff and the garden, it also rings true! A simple leaf, for example, doesn't look very simple at all when you shoot it up close! Rather, the more you zone in, the more wonderfully intricate it becomes and you begin to see it more as a work of beauty in its own right than as nature's solution to getting a particular job done. 

My old camera doesn't really have the capability to compete with its modern-day, megapixel, wunderkind descendants, I know, but, on its day, it can still surprise me, as it did on one of those sunny days with this example of nature's unassuming finesse!

More soon ...

Another fine mesh!