Hailstorm

I looked at a photo taken in the early 1970s and thought: what am I looking at?

Then I remembered that it was a hailstorm, a rare event in the tropics. There were pictures taken of the lawn, looking like some magic eye puzzle, a waste of film. In this photo you can just make them out on the concrete. I know now that what the eyes see and what the camera records are different things. The eye focuses on what the brain tells it to while the camera is indiscriminate. That is to say, I should have taken a closer shot of a hailstone, even if I didn't have a macro lens at the time.