Differential Focus

I have loved taking photos since I was a child, and when I was teaching, I ran a photography activity.  At the beginning of the year it was always over-subscribed, and I used to give each person a black and while film roll, and told them to go out and take pix.  Some would be back in 10 minutes wanting another film: these were in.  Others would return an hour later saying that couldn’t find anything to take photos of; these were out!

During lockdown I have been pretty much tied to the house for pix, so I have been playing with my camera, especially with differential focusing.  For example, two sunflowers self seeded in the tub below the bird feeder.  Changing the focus changes what we see.

As we were tidying up the sweet peas, I noticed the back-lit pods and stems, and took quite a few pix.  When I came to edit them, I noticed that the automatic focus had chosen different bits of the pictures to focus on.  Two show this well.  The first has focused on the pretty bits; the second on the grass weed at the end of the drive.

So often we focus on the wrong things.  In difficult times (like today’s lockdown) we focus on the wrong things.  We need to move our focus from the difficulties to the pretty bits.  Fortunately, we have our father God and brother Jesus to help us.