"Exquisite detail"

June, 2011

I've described my panorama images as having "exquisite detail".  This is hard to show on a web site, especially when the image's proportions are very different from the proportions of a computer monitor.  Following is an attempt to give a better feeling for the detail in the prints.

"Yellowwood ferns":

8" x 4" print detail from "Yellowwood ferns":

How important is "exquisite detail" to me?  In a way, not at all, but in another way, very.  I certainly don't want to give the impression that I think technical perfection is the most important aspect of a photographer's work.  But I would say that ideally in viewing a photograph I will have an experience of it drawing me in, and that no matter how far it draws me in, the richness of the experience never disappoints.  When photographs are printed too large, this does not happen; we are drawn in, and then disappointed.  This is why "exquisite detail" is important to me.