How Can We Capture Depth of Field? by Darlene Beck Jacobson

 I just came back from my first trip to New Mexico. I was visiting friends who took me on a drive to the top of Sandia Peak which overlooks the city of Albuquerque. 10,000 feet and two miles above sea level, it is wondrous to behold.

 The breathtaking views can never be captured with a camera. Even by the best photographer. Because of the depth of field. Yes, the trees are close. Yes, the mountains and valley look far away.

But how can we convey such vast distance without seeing it in person.

 

Even standing on a road, looking up at a wall of rock, it seems that words are not enough to convey the majesty, splendor, and enormity of the space that lies before us.

 

 

 

 

The best we can do, as writers, is to maybe use our senses to talk about the smell and feel of the dry air that surrounds the place. The feel of the rocks beneath our feet. The sound of peace and quiet with no man-made intrusion of noise. The sight that leaves us open-mouthed and speechless.

 

 All of it leaving me with the feeling that we are but a small being in a vast universe. Out of our depth in a vast field of wonder.

 

 

Darlene Beck Jacobson loves traveling to amazing places and feeling the vastness of the world.