June 14 – Refracted Glory

It’s genuinely captivating how dewdrops refract the images of objects behind them, acting as tiny prisms. In the case of dewdrop daisies, the dewdrops capture the daisy right behind the leaf, creating a stunning sight.

Macro photography is the art of photographing small things, in this case, water drops. Water droplets behave like miniature glass spheres. Light enters the drop, bends (refracts), reflects off the back, and bends again as it exits. This refraction photography creates a small, sharp image inside the droplet — often upside down.

While the image inside the drop isn’t real, it is a perfect likeness of the flower behind it. Nature is much like a water drop: it reveals God’s glory and first draws our attention to creation, then to the Creator. That’s what it’s there for.

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” – 2 Corinthians 3:18

Just as nature reflects God’s glory, so do we. Capture His light and reflect it to the world.