Enlightenment comes at the strangest and most unexpected of moments sometimes. While walking my dogs and the neighbor child that I watch, we started a game of I Spy. When it came to the girl's turn, she picked yellow. I guessed all the yellow objects that I could see and then gave up, asking her what the object was. She replied that it was the sun. I told her that I couldn't consider the sun because it wasn't something that I could look at without hurting me eyes. It was true that it was in my range of sight as we walked, but it wasn't something I considered to be an object in my field of vision. I never thought to look up....just wasn't within my idea of space to search. I realized that my viewpoint was quite limited and that, in the scheme of things, what we consider to be our focus can be quite limited in every sense. I decided to take a picture of the sun with the camera...to let it do what my eyes couldn't. The resulting images were quite beautiful and reminded me that humans are such a miniscule piece of existence in relationship to the infiniteness of what is beyond us.
So true Dale. It is really interesting to consider the camera lens as an eye...what other things can it see that we cannot?
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