Getting Really Close Up

Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “close up / close-up.” This prompt inspired me to head outside and take some macro photos. Getting really close up to the azalea buds made me notice that they have a warm, spicy smell. Getting really close up to the snow on my windshield, I noticed ice crystals on the inside (that can’t be good).

Even with warm clothes and gloves, I didn’t last long in this morning’s cold, so I came in and got really close up to the cat. He must have been very sleepy because he let me take his close-up. He didn’t exactly pose, but he didn’t run away. I love that I captured the reflection of the window in his eye.

I continued my very close up photography in my mirrorworld, bringing the lens very close to the lights, or very close to the mirrors and found some interesting compositions. I wanted to get close up to some music too, so I picked a record with a close up of a woman with her chin near her reflection in a mirrored table on the cover called, “Champagne Music for DANCING with Dean Lester.” It was my mother’s. I listened to it in wireless headphones while I took pictures.

The rest of the day I plan to draft some poems. I want to continue this idea of “close up” as I write. Here’s what I wrote while thinking about the possibilities in my journal this morning, “As I draft my poems and as I revise the ones I started yesterday I want to keep in mind and keep asking: How can get closer? What brings this close up? What is hiding that I’ll see when I zoom in? How d I zoom in on this? What is revealed in the close-up? How do I want to start that practice?” (Some stream of consciousness inside my stream of consciousness).

So here’s to a day of staying “close up” and getting closer through close observation. What a great way to spend a Saturday.