Unseen Worlds Revealed

Looped and spun around grasses, stretched between trees, catching the light just so, invisible one minute and then shimmering in iridescent splendour the next, spiderwebs reveal a whole other world.

Photographing them allows you to step lightly into that world, to bring forward those things that are often hidden.

On an overcast morning in the grey light following an evening of solid, gentle rain, the forest is lit up by spiderwebs and suddenly those hidden worlds are illuminated. Spaces that people mistakenly talk about as vacant, unused land, are revealed to be full of life.

There is often so much going on right in front of us that we don’t see and it takes that extra time and care to explore.

That’s one of the things I love about photography and having my camera at the ready, though I am not always the best at that! A camera becomes like a microscope of sorts, revealing the small, bringing forward the unseen.

Exploring the world with a camera is like donning a snorkelling mask and peering beneath the water to the colourful and busy world that lives beneath the often placid surface of the ocean, a lake, or stream.

There is much more to this world than we can possibly know, but honing in, spending time, capturing those moments that are as fleeting as a spiderweb lets us connect in some way to the unseen layers and lives of the spaces we share.