Dried fireweed detail

Even lighting, a close crop, and shallow depth-of-field accentuate the curves of a dried fireweed seedhead

Curves in dried fireweed

I know it's odd to call this post "Dried fireweed detail" when 95% of the photograph is out of focus. For me however, this image captures the essence of the detail—and the depth—of the dried seed pods. The title's also a bit if a play on words—using "detail" in the sense of a close-up of a portion of a larger work, like when a small section of a painting is enlarged in a book to show a painter's technique, for example. I really enjoy getting in close to a photographic subject to look for an angle that can capture the greater "whole" of the subject while showing only a small portion.

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