bristlecone limbs

Knots and Whorls Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA September 2018

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Crossroads

One thing I am finding as I push myself in photography is that sharing what I really captured is not easy to do online. While platforms exist that can show off more resolution and more detail (flickr, 500px, etc.), the community, sharing, and accessibility just isn’t there.

In addition, some images just need to be seen at a greater size. This is the norm for landscapes, and often true for wildlife. What you see here as a nice image of a bird standing around is actually a full body portrait where you can even see the barbs of the feathers, the hooks of their claws, and the pupils of their eyes. Color is oddly not an issue, especially since current generation phones are all high-gamut devices. The colors you are capable of seeing on your phones far exceed what you could ever see on a movie theater screen, and what you could see on a TV (though this is starting to change).

For now, my solution is to just show a few crops in addition to the main image. They don’t always tell the whole story, but I think they can help guide one’s imagination into a sense of seeing the whole picture. I want more than this, but I think for now this will have to do.