🌻 “Golden Stillness”
(This is an updated version of a blog post originally written in August last year.)
There’s a certain stillness that arrives on summer afternoons, when the sun hangs heavy and the fields exhale warmth.
In a sea of golden petals, I find not just beauty—but presence.
Today I stood among sunflowers, not looking for the perfect shot, but simply observing how the light curved across each petal.
After the summer rain passed, droplets clung to the velvet textures like tiny glass beads, catching fragments of sky.
These weren’t landscapes, but moments. Details. A single curl in a leaf, a shimmer of pollen dust, the softness of gold touched by water.
Macro photography teaches you to be still. To lean closer.
To see what you would otherwise walk past.
This was not just about flowers. It was about listening to the quiet joy of a summer field, warm and wet, awake and gentle. A place where nothing demands your attention—except the present.