{"id":4074,"date":"2010-10-26T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T21:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2010-10-27T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:19:04","slug":"a-conversation-with-forms-of-disintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with forms of disintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billions of leaves now lie on my little parcel of the planet. Each whispers a different message about color, form, texture,\u00a0pattern, volume, shape, and line. Each changes by the hour as they\u00a0disintegrate; no longer able to fulfill their role in photosynthesis<\/a>. How do I choose just one leaf to visually converse with? Does it matter which one? Probably not.<\/p>\n

Sunday: I pick up three leaves. As I tilt and twist\u00a0each one and observe the light shifting through the Visoflex (with the\u00a065 mm \u00a0Elmar at full extension, plus two tubes) it becomes clear that one leaf has much more to say than the other two. So it does matter. I set up a minimal, miniature studio at “my place” on the kitchen table (just the little SD24 flash on a Nikon off-camera cable, and a white reflector). For the next couple hours that leaf and I enjoy a lovely visual conversation. Two thirds into this conversation\u00a0Ann asks, “all that!? for one leaf?” I chuckle \u2014 and think to myself, “oh yes. This one seems to have a lot to say.” How do I explain these fascinating visual conversations to someone who has not experienced this process? Perhaps by quoting visual excerpts from our dialogue. Before continuing its journey toward becoming fertile dirt the leaf had this to say\u2026<\/p>\n

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Leica M8, Visoflex with 65 mm Elmar at full extension, plus two extension tubes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billions of leaves now lie on my little parcel of the planet. Each whispers a different message about color, form, texture,\u00a0pattern, volume, shape, and line. Each changes by the hour as they\u00a0disintegrate; no longer able to fulfill their role in photosynthesis. How do I choose just one leaf to visually converse with? Does it matter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,55,19,33,17,36,29,50,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-flora","category-hand-made","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-sculptural-forms","category-self-expression","category-still-life","category-things","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}