photo of the week - dec 12, 2018

What I love most about macro photography is how it not only magnifies the image, but also the beauty. For example, it's not unusual to walk past a flower bed with bees hovering around it. It may be pretty, a pleasant scene, but most of the time it's not an exceptional thing to see. It's rarely jaw-dropping. Our eyes simply aren't designed to see such tiny details - we see the larger picture. But when captured through a macro lens, details emerge that the naked eye is not capable of displaying. The lens literally allows us to see what we otherwise would never have been able to. Like a whole new world hidden inside the one we already know.​
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“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
-Elliott Erwitt