May 2, 2018 Zoom

I’m not sure yet what I want to say about this photo. I like it immensely. The idea of having a 70-300 mm lens never appealed to me in the past. I wasn’t sure what real benefit could be derived by being able to zoom further – big deal! When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child… I didn’t realize what lovely things happen to the background when you use a zoom lens. This humble bit of wrought iron is on our front porch, but what really makes this beautiful to me is that the ugly pre-spring patchy lawn behind it has been transformed into a mellow greenish hue of undetermined detail. The bright blurred background allows the wrought iron piece to stand out in proud relief and strut its stuff. The lens allows me to see this is a way that I couldn’t with my eyes alone. It occurs to me that this is a gracious way to view a friend, or even an enemy – let all ugly background stuff become blurry and focus on the best parts.

Zoom, baby!

I’ll probably delete this in the morning.