Heroes Not Zombies

One of my favourite ways to photograph a plant is with the sun shining through its leaves or flowers. I suppose this breaks the same rule about shooting with the sun behind you, which I wrote about the other day. But in this case the sun is nowhere to be seen.

I like this image because plants capture the energy of the sun and turn it into structure and nutrition. They also gobble up carbon dioxide from the air, and in exchange, produce oxygen.

If plants weren’t able to transform the sun’s energy then none of us would exist. Plants evolved before animals, after all, and if they’d never emerged then the Earth wouldn’t have developed the protective atmosphere which it has now.

I also like this image because it seems as if the plant is radiating light. To me, it seems as if you can see its Life Force, a phenomenon we are all aware of, but which isn’t considered nearly enough in health care.