Seeing 2013 (#7)

For your consideration:

In a word, a study of compositional flow, symmetries, lines and depth of field.

As a child I discovered a love of dictionaries. Difficult to describe, but several facets were captivating to me: the various fonts (bold for the entries, italics for grammatical notes, etymology, and foreign usage); accent marks for syballic emphasis; illustrations with such attention to detail that they seemed works of art in their own right; and of course the definitions of a myriad of words previously beyond my knowledge.  So many of them!

As Steve Martin remarked, (paraphrasing), English has a word for everything!

Oh, and this:  the unique, distinct scent of an old book well made.  (Is there a Kindle app for that?  I think not.)

I recently acquired such an aged, rather pristine specimen, abandoned (gasp!).

Beloved tome, new studio lighting genre on which to focus . . . well, the addition of reading glasses just lends itself to photographic possibilities!

Focus, #1775-7D; 

© 2013 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: January 10, 2013, Canon 7D; f/22 @ 1/30 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 400;
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

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