I like going out with a macro lens on my camera engaging in what I call small game hunting. My love of nature and the natural world, and my love of photography are in something of a symbiotic relationship. For as far back as my memory goes (post-toddler days) being outside, especially exploring nature, is a favorite thing and fundamental to who I am. The sidecar to that is my love for photographing anything and everting, a passion that started when I was given a camera (a Kodak Brownie Box which I still have) when I was about 7 or 8 years old and living in Lexington Massachusetts. As I got older, when I went out to experience something in or explore nature I almost always took my camera. I grew from my old Brownie Box to SLRs by the time I was in high school in MA and then college, also in MA. I have lived in DE now for nearly 50 years and the motivation to get outdoors is sometimes driven by a desire to walk, hike and explore/experience and sometimes driven by a desire/need to go out and photograph something. That relations is what I will call symbiotic, a term I learned in science classes in college. In this case my need to get outdoors helps my photography as I usually take a camera, and my tug to go out and photograph something get me outside. Yesterday and today the camera drove the train. Loading up my macro setup I searched for small game. Here, finding a common bumble bee on a fall aster provided a nice composition of color, texture, and form. I shot quite few yesterday and this morning so more coming over the next few days.
