Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Focus Found



The Cloudless Sulphur is the most elusive of the butterflies in the yard. This is the typical photograph I have of them. In this one, with the house in the background and the sulphur flying from the azalea, the out of focus approach is perhaps better. The minds eye actually need not have precise, sharp focus. The imagination is sharp and in focus, and easily creates a clear scene depicted. Not that initial sharpness is a bad thing. It is the preferred approach, and nothing pleases me more than to capture in vivid sharpness the butterflies and birds as they fly past. But then too, just as pleasing is the blurred and surreal dream-like scene.
As I said on the post in Facebook, Perfectly sharp perspective needs no human focus.

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