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Full view is a must on this one!
A small section, about 1/4 the size of my thumbnail, of the screen of an iPOD. No crop. No modification. [LINK ] for a full-resolution crop.

Living in an RGB World:
The title and image have a lot of meaning to me. There is no question that we live in a digital world. We attend every aspect of our lives to what we see on TV and hear in our music. Reality itself has lost it's appeal. It's a pathology of materialism where what we cannot buy, we cannot enjoy. Everything else is insignifigant. Happiness no longer holds a solid definition. That is too simple for us because purity and simplicity are attributes of the weak. Instead, we create a world of chaos and complexity; one that never sheds a light on truth or passion, only objectivity and glamour. Where the self is more important than the neighbor, or the man crying for help across the street. We think we are happier because when we are too busy looking inward to ever look outward, how can we expect to notice the empty shells we are living in?

Nothing is perfect though. When you take the time to bend down and take a closer look, you see that it all isn't so complex and magical afterall. You see the flaws...all of the simple little building blocks holding it...our lives, together. Those building blocks have become no more real than a color. We can see it, but we can't touch it. We can't smell it. We can't taste it. And it, will certainly never reach out and touch us.

Let's lean in and see what is really making us happy. Maybe we can start to let go of all of this false security, and once again, learn to appreciate the real things in life. The beautiful things. The things with a real texture, a real odor, and a real taste. Let's appreciate the real world that we live in, and the real people that share it with us...not this RGB world.

Technical:
I don't have a macro lense. I used the inverse lense method to do this shot. 200mm lense on camera, inverted 28mm lense in front of the lense. This creates an ultra-super-duper-duper macro effect. That's the technical term for it at least. This is a full frame shot, it was not cropped or edited at all besides adding a frame. The whole frame covers an area about one quarter the size of my thumbnail. Again I'm really happy with how this shot came out...it is certainly my favorite of my recent submissions; I just wish I could put the full resolution image on here...it's pretty impressive

BTW the face in the photograph is from the 30 Seconds to Mars album cover...if anyone picked up on that

Description
Full view is a must on this one!
A small section, about 1/4 the size of my thumbnail, of the screen of an iPOD. No crop. No modification. [LINK ] for a full-resolution crop.

Living in an RGB World:
The title and image have a lot of meaning to me. There is no question that we live in a digital world. We attend every aspect of our lives to what we see on TV and hear in our music. Reality itself has lost it's appeal. It's a pathology of materialism where what we cannot buy, we cannot enjoy. Everything else is insignifigant. Happiness no longer holds a solid definition. That is too simple for us because purity and simplicity are attributes of the weak. Instead, we create a world of chaos and complexity; one that never sheds a light on truth or passion, only objectivity and glamour. Where the self is more important than the neighbor, or the man crying for help across the street. We think we are happier because when we are too busy looking inward to ever look outward, how can we expect to notice the empty shells we are living in?

Nothing is perfect though. When you take the time to bend down and take a closer look, you see that it all isn't so complex and magical afterall. You see the flaws...all of the simple little building blocks holding it...our lives, together. Those building blocks have become no more real than a color. We can see it, but we can't touch it. We can't smell it. We can't taste it. And it, will certainly never reach out and touch us.

Let's lean in and see what is really making us happy. Maybe we can start to let go of all of this false security, and once again, learn to appreciate the real things in life. The beautiful things. The things with a real texture, a real odor, and a real taste. Let's appreciate the real world that we live in, and the real people that share it with us...not this RGB world.

Technical:
I don't have a macro lense. I used the inverse lense method to do this shot. 200mm lense on camera, inverted 28mm lense in front of the lense. This creates an ultra-super-duper-duper macro effect. That's the technical term for it at least. This is a full frame shot, it was not cropped or edited at all besides adding a frame. The whole frame covers an area about one quarter the size of my thumbnail. Again I'm really happy with how this shot came out...it is certainly my favorite of my recent submissions; I just wish I could put the full resolution image on here...it's pretty impressive

BTW the face in the photograph is from the 30 Seconds to Mars album cover...if anyone picked up on that