This year’s theme is “Close Ups.”

“The close-up says everything.”
Marlon Brando

I’m using a photo that is obviously from December…but it was such a good close-up and fits the theme so well. Plus, when cropped and zoomed even closer in, you can’t tell it’s from Christmas time. That’s the thing about zooming in. Sometimes, the big picture is lost…what is outside the frame is cropped. It’s that way with life, too. If we zoom in too close, we can lose sight of what’s really there. But the benefit is the we see what’s right in front of us more clearly. We focus in on that one thing. There’s no way to do both, we have to decide which is most important at the time…big picture or focus?