Seeing 2012 (#53)

For your consideration: subtle yet pervasively recognizable visual clues provide a general setting for this tableau as wholly terrestrial, yet absent such atmospherics this scene could otherwise be taken as occurring on a distant, alien world, in a far greater scale.

Here, however, a meditation on the concept of genesis. An incredibly delicate craft seems to hover above a slim surface, a visitation where continued replication is itself the raison d'être of both the determined journey and tenuous landing.

The odds of success seem frightfully long: even the slightest whiffs of breeze pose abortive impediments to the goal. Yet, though the fate of this particular quest literally hangs by a thread, Nature has proven herself to be endlessly relentless and ultimately successful in such life-sustaining aspirations.

Never, ever, ever give up.

Seed Approach, #6241-7D

© 2012 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: March 23, 2012; Canon 7D; f/8 @ 1/250 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 640;
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

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