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A logical following to the previous image might have included a head, a face, or a rock. Instead I am playing off of pattern and texture, ignoring any inclination toward matching subject and narrative. I shot this image in our kitchen one evening. A moth must have gotten into our house and in its Darwinian nature, chose to camouflage itself against the stripes of our mahogany cabinets. I chose flat lighting to illuminate the subject, which I used to further obfuscate the moth into the background, bucking the photographer’s natural instinct to “render” with quality light. I think it makes for a facinating graphical and environmental statement. In selecting this image, I was intrigued by the notion of forms hiding in other forms, as is the case here and in Robert’s stony image. It’s no wonder that hunters use the moth pattern in camouflage, it is a very convincing means of blending in. The conversion to black and white completed the abstraction.

An uncanny pairing for today’s Daily Photo Game. I loved making this image at the Scottsdale Butterfly preserve, I remember making it quite clearly. The striking contrast between the dark shaded trunk and the iridescent pattern of the Butterfly wings was incredible. Nearly as incredible is how Robert’s image “Grin” and this image “play” together. It is worth seeing them as a pair, which our website does not offer unfortunately. So I have posted a version of them together here. I visualize the images for our Daily Photo Game as diptychs – the combination of the image preceding today’s photograph, or the image following today’s photograph – these visual conversations are the best and truest nature of our Game, IMHO. Like the brief shutter speed that captured this image, the butterfly flew off seconds later, and this photograph is the only temporal remains of that moment.