I am totally milking this trip to Jerome for blog fodder. I figure it’s a lot more interesting than writing about picking out hardwood floor or ordering a sleeper sofa. (Two of our accomplishments over the past week) Since I was using a macro lens in Jerome, I thought I would look for some opportunities to use that functionality.
Flowers are a favorite subject matter for macro photography. Jerome in November is not exactly lush with flora, but I did find a few flowers, first on a small sunflower plant. Between the wind and the direction of the sunlight, I wasn’t able to get a good image of one of the open flowers, but I did get this one nice shot of a closed bud. I also found a yellow rose bush. Again, the wind made it nearly impossible to get a lot of good shots (shooting macro outside on a windy day can be extremely frustrating). But I did get a few nice images, including this one on the right. Definitely worth the effort.
Of course I didn’t want to stop with just the obvious subject matter, so I tried looking for interesting patterns and was rewarded with these.
Both images are from a rusty old gas pump that sits outside of a store. I took some conventional photos of the pump and the big rusty gear wheel that sits next to it (Jerome is full of old mining remnants like that). They turned out fine but when I looked more closely at the pump I saw that the rusting surface had a great abstract art quality to it. The bit of yellow in the photo at left is a small bit of paint that is still clinging tenaciously to the pump. I’m not sure which image I like better, what do you think?
Yum, yum, yum! I love the texture with the yellow paint. Very painterly looking indeed.