Spirals

As part of the landscape tutorial we were told to look at the intimate landscape, for things that were not immediately obvious, including the dock plants that were scattered around the farm.

I liked the way that most of them seemed to curl indiscriminately, with abandon.  Although there is probably a reason for this, it didn’t seem obvious, other than to look more interesting.  I took two shots of the same plant, one with the focus on the front of the stem, one on the back which is the one I have chosen.

I preferred this one because it had more interest, with the bug and the patterns on the leaf looking sharper, the bug also adding a sense of scale.

I had my macro lens fitted, and the camera set to ISO200.  I was on shutter priority to reduce the chances of losing a good shot to camera shake, and therefore at 1/125 secs the camera used an aperture of f/6.3.