I think one of the things that intrigues me most about photography is the ability to focus on the beautiful. This morning’s magnificent Pee Dee hydrangea bloom gives no hint to the totally burned leaves of the mopheads sharing the same hot and sultry garden bed. Throughout my blistered July garden I do find beautiful places to focus my lens.
I turn away from the newly planted and already wilting tomato plants to find the adjacent three year old Japanese maple saying, “Look at me! I’m making it.” It has recovered so amazingly from having several limbs succumb to a falling Leyland cyprus in a past winter snow. The maple’s leaves are a bright emerald green, showing few signs of heat prostration. So many bright yellow blooms, some beginning to lose a few petals, but others standing tall and resistant to the already brutal morning’s heat. I capture a stunning showing of golden blossoms, taking care to avoid the foliage of the spent lilies behind them. Through my camera’s lens I focus on a lovely pink coneflower bloom, not the spent and dusty brown petals of its sister flowers sharing the same stalk.
A ray of sun catches a remaining sprinkler droplet on a trio of rose blooms, and with my lens I am able to isolate them from all those brown and crinkled neighbors, awaiting a deadheading attack. Yes, I was glad to have my camera along this morning to improve my perspective. I can only hope that my Creator is using a similar lens on me.
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