i love lichens and the way their muted colors and crinkly textures combine with those of the host rock. Your colors here are lovely. Yellow, gray, brick red, black, white. But lichens are as tough to shoot as rock, bark, sand, short grass, asphalt, cement, dirt.. These textures are all sharp and shallow and i mess 'em up every time (but i have been shooting with a digital camera till now which could explain it). i'm not sure if it's the result of too much DOF (can there be TOO much?) or too little. Too sharp or too soft? Too much contrast or not enough? Or just a crappy lens (probably the real reason). Here, for example, i can see that it's lichen, i can see the rock, but i want to see every crinkle, every tiny shadow and crevice and i can't. There's no depth whatsoever. It's just a smush of different colors. And i'm not criticizing you. i am empathizing because i'll bet your slide was fabulous and the scan didn't do you justice. Someday i'll figure out the mystery of these subtle but sharp textures. Best regards: kat~
What's interesting here is out of what appears to be random disorder is the result of orderly created life forms. We see something in it and create something else.
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