Saturday, September 10, 2011

What you see isn't always what you get

This happens to me a lot: I'm taking a picture or in the process of trying to get a picture when all of a sudden I notice something else, like a bonus prize, that happens as a result of my original picture taking impulse. Like these mushrooms, for instance. I stopped to take a picture of them because they're yellow (which is going to be next week's color of the week for this photography thingy that I'm doing with my siblings), and while I was focusing on them I realized that they were moving which in turn led me to focus on the bugs that were crawling around all over them. Interesting bugs, which I wouldn't have seen at all if I hadn't stopped to take the picture of the mushrooms.


















This also happened last week with a tree I meant to photograph with my camera phone because I wanted something different as the wallpaper image and I nearly stepped on a pygmy rattlesnake in the process and so I took a not very good picture of that instead. Camera phones of the sort that I have are very limiting. I need to work on this, but you can see it's a snake, right? I thought so.