Light Writing

These combined interests of macro- and microcosms grew into my quantum physics fetish. Beyond the the very small lies the secrets of the very large; secrets limited by whatever lens we choose when searching for them.

Throw in healthy doses of philosophy and psychology, and my beliefs can’t help but tend toward the multiple-universe school of thought, that accepts a personal universe for each of our branching viewpoints, beliefs, and decision paths we choose (see Sliding Doors), thus delivering whatever we consciously request from the true center of our being.

I can see north: but where’s the compass point for true center?

I’ve been looking through lenses of one type or another for most of my life:
microscopes, telescopes, binoculars, cameras, rose glasses…

I was very much into astronomy for years- zooming in on other worlds, other galaxies. What objects will be in the sky on what nights? I scheduled viewing times around new moons and meteor showers. Sat on the deck of the pool in the back yard to get 4 feet closer to the sky.

Binoculars (my brother’s) at ball games were like instant upgrades of our tickets.

In Biology class I never fancied dissection or blood, but was intrigued with viewing slides at home in my sister’s microscope. Pond water from the woods out back housed lots of cool stuff. Life forms, or their building blocks, so small you need help seeing them. They were beautiful, or scary-looking, but always amazing.

For me, writing always naturally followed observation. Recording what I saw in the ‘scopes, writing school projects about the baseball games I attended, scientific records for class, or journal entries of my own day’s thoughts and night’s wondering.

But once I got got my hands on my very own camera- I believe it was a Vivitar 110 Instamatic- I was determined to capture those moments when awareness says “Hey! Look at that! And look at it this way.” I even won some local photography awards back then (4-H, for anyone rural enough to know).

Between college degrees, 12 or so years ago, I bought a Chinon Genesis IV. That’s when my eye started to develop and I began noticing, studying other photographs. I recently gave the Genesis to my nephew after I bought my Canon Digital Rebel. He’s big into movies (gonna-be-in-the-industry-somehow-someday big), and I figure this will give him little head-start on developing his eye. (Unintentional pun intentionally retained.)

So my new love of photography, now digital photography, should not be a surprise. It’s a new way of writing, for me. Writing by capturing light. Light-writing.

It’s one of those things that’s right there, so close and so constant that you don’t notice. Like your own breath.

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