I’ve begun a new image gallery today, Evidence of Things Not Seen. Right now, it’s just a collection of current images that I’ve pointed toward, but I will gather up some of the bazillion pics I have laying around here that fit this category and slot them.

Basically, the title means images that reflect – in one way or another – something normally not seen in an ordinary sense. I.e., not skyline pictures or photos of bunnies.

More along the lines of macrophotography showing bugs (beetles, bees….) and flower reproductive parts. And, sure – we’ve all seen a computer keyboard – how about the same with funky light and a, for example, fish-eye lense? Stuff like that.

I love this type of photography, always have. Sure, a picture of a glass of wine can be artful. How about a 0.5×0.5 inch closeup of a curved edge of the glass, the miscus of the wine raising it up the glass?

Things like that. Stuff that makes one – for at least a second, at least – go, “huh? What’s that?”

Then my job is done.

While I always had this bent, I’m obviously influenced by artists such as Edward Weston – he of the green pepper series, the cabbage leaf, the Mexican toilet, Ansel Adams – who is best with grand landscapes, but can take one’s breath away with the Alaskan trailside photos, and – especially – Georgia O’Keeffe, who took making the mini mighty in a grand (some would say erotic) manner.

Still – in a way – nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

— About Myself, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1939