Best Photo of my day. Today

Micro to macro photography is one of my passions.

Last month I took some clicks of the Jasmine flowers growing nearby. From March to April their enticing fragrance of the flowers spread in a 10 feet radius!

An entre bouquet of these blooms on the photos above, would fit on the the nail of your index finger.

Each flower is 1/16 of an inch in size ( 1.58mm), and the little stigma in the center (the little brown dot), has the circumference the size of a single hair, about 0.0015 inch in size (0.04 mm).

Photography is a fascinating Art and Science.

I started learning how to take meaningful photos when I was a child. My teacher was a highly skilled photographer, well-known in the city and beyond. His pictures were nothing like his personality. It was like seeing 2 people in one, the master of the camera was calm, detail-oriented, soft-spoken, but once the camera was not on his hands he became a hyper choleric. It was like a part of him was missing. He and his camera identified as one entity.

On the photoshoots , mostly in a nearby park, I had to first learn how to find the interesting how to find the interesting in the mundane. Ad you can imagine, there isn't much of ''interesting'' to be found in a bunch of trees. But he pointed to the detail like the textures of the tree bark, the reflections in a rain puddle, or the colors of the leaves in Autumn, especially when the late afternoon sun shines through the crowns of the birch trees.

I learn hoe to point the lens of the camera not directly at the object, but a little askew, to allow the observer find the ''interesting for himself or herself.

I think that was the moment when nature photography became my favorite style, I started favoring it more that portrait photography, because the world around,- once I started looking at it differently - became an object with endless fascinating possibilities.

Then came the next part of my photography training: developing the images in the Dark Room. This was fun! I enjoyed adjusting the intensity of the colors, the shadows on the black and white images, and the watching of the photos develop on the paper while in the solution.

Once, I accidently mixed the solution (which were quite expensive back then), and the choleric personality of my instructor came out in full force with rage and words no appropriate to mention here. That was the first and only time I mixed the solutions wrongly. From that day on, I double-, triple-, and quadruple checked the solutions before mixing them.

All these years later, photography is still one of my most important passions. And since consistency is the key to retain a skill you once learned, I take a photograph every day. I even taught others how to take good photos, and how to recognize artistic photography vs. the common kind.

I believe that each photo ought to make the observer think in a different way, and draw conclusions that are uncommon in everyday life.

Seeing the extreme close up of the tiny flowers above, made me realize how many things we do not see in the in the world of the world, and deny or become indifferent to their existence.

I’m fascinated by people who think deeply. That skill mesmerizes me, it is like ASMR to me, mainly because they are able to draw conclusions on things that are totally out of my scope of vision - literally and figuratively.