The theme of the show is “New Beginnings” and it is the first show of a new online photography venue called World Photo Club.

Of course, I applied! Two of my examples of “new beginnings” were accepted for the show. If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know I love details and this show gave me an opportunity to show off detail shots.

Pawpaw leaves actually get quite big, but these brand new barely unfurled leaves at the end of a twig really caught my eye. You might say they “signaled” spring, new growth, lovely blossoms, and delicious fruit to come! Here’s hoping they brighten someone’s day here at the end of a long, hot summer.

I didn’t even realize that I had captured a “new beginning” for this damselfly until I opened the shot on my computer. Both damselflies and dragonflies spent part of their life swimming about in water feeding voraciously on everything in site. When their time comes, they crawl up onto a blade of grass or cypress knee or some such, a split opens up down the center of their back, and they crawl out–a fully formed damselfly or dragonfly.

They cannot fly immediately because their wings emerge wet and take a little time to dry–up to an hour. That’s good news for photographers! But, again, it was not until I had enlarged the shot on my computer that I realized the damselfly was still straddling the exoskeleton from which it had just emerged.

Thank you to juror David Akoubian for selecting my work. “New Beginnings” is ready to view online here: World Photo Club.