Early Bird Catches The Morning Dew

October 13, 2007

Macro photography is about giving a new lease of life to what the eyes — and by extension the mind — take for granted in our everyday life.

It’s about looking closer at things and to be able to examine them — and to contemplate their existence — a little bit more with the benefit of seeing the finer details.

This series of close-up pictures are taken from my parents’ paddy field in Sabah, the Malaysian state on Borneo island. The paddy itself is about a week old.

I did not plan to take these pictures when I took my camera to the paddy field just before sunrise not very long ago.

Actually I had wanted to take a picture of the paddy field against the backdrop of a rising sun but was not satisfied with the results.

Then I saw the few remaining drops of water on the blades of the young paddy saplings. The rest, as they say is history.

I hope the pictures here would inspire you to go to the field early enough to catch the morning dew before they evaporate. A DSLR would have done a better job, but I had to make the best of what I have.

So, as you can see here, it was not just the early birds that catch the worms. Early point-and-shoot photographers too, can catch their own worms.