Bread Craters
By Aggie
12 May 2008
If you take a close enough look, you'll discover a new world within the craters of bread...
Take a good slice of wheat bread and stare at it. What do you see? Cities, cells, craters, homes for the grains and seeds and nuts...
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It was a rainy afternoon in April and I was just about to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, when suddenly, I came across the two most magnificent slices of bread. Sure it's just bread you say, but this bread was extra special. It had thousands of tiny little (and big) "popped bubbles," or craters, for lack of a better term. At this moment it had also occurred to me that these craters resembled burrows, or homes where perhaps the grains resided. Now imagine yourself a tiny grain, a proud citizen of Wheatville, (that's what I decided to call the bread) and your whole city is two seconds away from getting attacked by sticky jelly and chunky peanut butter. As a hungry human, but a fascinated observer, I spared my hunger for the sake of the grains of Wheatville.
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When I took these photographs I really wanted to capture, specifically, the craters that were so captivating. I did that with the macro setting on my Cannon Powershot. Mind you it's no Nikon D80, but it still captured the idea I wanted to portray. So from the huge holes to the tiniest openings on the edge, I hope you enjoy this close-up view of the bread craters in which a grain lives.
