Common Close-ups

We see them all the time, certain images, but we never get tired of looking at them. I'm not talking about a specific thing, like movie stars or menus or even landscapes. I'm talking about a broad array of topics that get photographed every day by the truck loads. These kinds of things are animals, flowers, and even food. So break out your camera or your pencil and join the masses.

I'll start out with flowers because no matter how many time I see a close-up of a Rose, for some reason, I will look at another and another. I remember seeing somewhere that bees navigate through fields of flowers with the aid of ultraviolet detection. Maybe my memory is faulty but the brighter the ultraviolet the more powerful the attraction to a particular flower. Maybe there's some kind of connection between bees and mankind. Roses above all other flowers I would say attract us. It's maybe just an idea or connection we make between romance and the longing for love and the smell and velvet feel of the petals.

Flowers in general though attract us. They are beautiful and colorful and many smell wonderful. Seeing a picture of a flower doesn't usually invoke negative feelings, but rather positive warm feelings. This is why we seek out flowers and photographs of flowers an even iconic art of flowers, to recapture that positive memory or energy. Some people are well known for their flower photographs and painting, and while they can make a living at it, the rest of us can enjoy the amateur status with impressive results. A pencil sketch of a flower was one of the first images I gave away many years ago.

Along with flowers, we seem to identify and want to see images of animals in all sorts of situations. A Gorilla with a grin on its face is generally as exciting as the large tail of a whale disappearing into the water. Close-ups of animals gets us right into the action and the closer and clearer the image is the more impressed we are. Never mind that we've seen fish of all shapes sizes and colors for a few decades now. Never mind that we are now privilege to view photographs of a rhino's hide or a Flamingo's feathers any time of day. Never mind that photos of pets can be found plastered all over the web doing amazing, stupid, and/or entertaining things. We want to see them.

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