Images of Spring

Lately, we've joined some other homeschool families on a few hikes. Poly has taken his camera with him each time. When you get into photography, you begin to view your environment with a heightened awareness. Every thing you see can be potentially zoomed in or out and captured within a two-dimensional image and frozen forever. You begin to put rectangular mental frames around things. You pay attention to the grandest sweeping scenery as well as the tiniest flower petal. Here are some pretty awesome images Poly has captured.

Here's an added bonus to photography. It can act like a magnifier giving you insight into a common object. This is a magnified view of the dandelion. Isn't it amazing? Poly was also thrilled to discover, upon further inspection, that the purple flower (which was the size of a fingernail) had a tiny caterpiller on it.