Structural Post-Biology? Post-Biological Structure?

picture data: Nikon D300,  16 - 35 mm f/4.0; picture taken at ISO 800, 35 mm (52 mm equivalent), f/13, 1/640

Last year we had some (unplanned) nice, big sunflowers in our vegetable garden. Once the blooming period was over and the plant was having a hard time keeping its heads up with all the seeds, we cut off the flower heads and laid them on the empty beds, for the birds to harvest the seeds. This spring now, when (to our dismay) the weeds started growing like crazy, I found this interesting skeleton of a sunflower head amidst all the emerging weed — an interesting contrast between sparkling new life and its decay the year after!

My Early Attempts at (More) Serious Photography

Back in 1974, I added a set of (non-automatic) extension rings to my Topcon RE-2 SLR and my only lens at that time, a 58 mm f/1.8 RE Auto-Topcor — and started to explore macro photography. Most of the time I did b&w photography using Kodak Panatomic-X, Plus-X Pan, or Tri-X Pan film that I typically developed myself. I never had the equipment to create paper copies, though, so these films were resting in their sleeves for 35 years. I have now digitized many of these pictures, so for the first time I can have a proper look at my "artworks"! I wasn't good at bookkeeping in those years, so don't ask me about technical details like aperture, exposure time, even film type. Shame on me!
About the shot above: I like the "steely" look of these buds on a cherry tree in our garden, the "analog grain" that is impossible to obtain with a DSLR (there's software that can add "film grain" to digital photos, but I doubt you'll get the same result) — OK, if you look closely you may see that I used "digital de-dusting" ...

A First Blog Post ...

Hey, that was easy! Now I need to think about suitable contents; for the simple stuff I'll continue to use my FB account, though ...