chitin

photography makes you look at things you may not have really seen before...
like the gorgeous chitin on this beetle! it shimmers with iridescent blue!

the angle you shoot from can make all the difference.
the place you stand becomes sacred.

i asked my students to journal about their “dream-jobs”....
i think it would be fascinating to work for national geographic and to be paid to travel and take pictures! i may have to go to hawaii to photograph the native flora and fauna there or perhaps to australia or ireland or greece....

actually there is a world of wonder in my backyard...whenever i get the itch to capture images, i only have to slip on my garden clogs and head out my back door - there i’ll find furry moths still silvery from hatching, water lilies in full bloom, new, shiny, brick-red crabapples clustered in groups of three, my neighbor betty picking tomatoes from her garden, eastern towhees scratching for seeds - lots of stuff.

my camera enabled me to discover the beauty of chitin.