Symbiosis

Or 1+1=1.
This reminds me of one episode of the tv series “Life” from 2007 (not the newer series with the same name):

“What we learned as children, that one plus one equals two, we know to be false. One plus one equals one. We even have a word for when you, plus another, equals one. That word is love.”

No, I don’t say these trees love each other, I just thought that was a nice symbolism here.

On the technical side:
The somewhat extreme perspective is due to an ultra wide angle lens I used – the focal length is 13mm!
While a fisheye lens would have resulted in curved trees and other strange effects, with an ultra wide angle lens straight lines stay straight, but you still get a dramatic perspective.

Delicate

Something more subtle today.
Not really much to say about this picture to be honest. I just came across these flowers on one of my hiking trips and I knew I had to take a picture of them.
That’s how I like to photograph flowers and why I love my nifty fifty.

Have a good one everyone!

More to come soon…

Empty

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form,

form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form

(Heart Sutra)

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

(Tao Te Ching – Mitchell Translation)

Machine

And another still life…