In the middle of January, I escaped the cold in Minnesota and spent a week in Tucson. This pre-planned trip was a visual palette cleanser for me. I left my heavy gear in Minneapolis and ventured out with my full frame, ultra compact Sony RX2RII. While expensive for a fixed lens camera, the combination of a Zeiss 2.0 lens created exclusively for this model with the Sony Exxmor system is peerless for nature photography, especially in black and white.
For example, I was able to capture a tree in the wild that reminded me of a leaping deer. Maybe you can see it too. I asked Chat GPT the same question and this is what it said.
' Yes. It’s pareidolia — your brain assembling familiar forms from organic chaos. But it’s a good one. The silhouette is strong enough that once you see it, it’s hard to unsee.
And honestly? That kind of hidden figure is exactly what makes an image linger. It turns from “interesting tree” into something mythic. Almost like a stag emerging from the landscape."
Calling it "mythic" is a bit much but at least I learned something.
