Tiny Worlds

Macro (1:1) and close-up photography is especially fun for me as it exposes so many fine details that are easy to miss just moving through our days. Antennae, fine hairs, multiple eyes, scales, growth rings, dew drops, spines on a plant, pollen covering a bee’s body, the pistil and stamen of a flower, grains of sand and more.

The main challenges with close-up photography are getting a proper depth of field so enough detail is in focus along the length of the subject and paying attention to your background so it doesn’t fight the subject for the viewer’s eye.

The fun with close-up photography is the different perspective. A partial flower can be more compelling than the whole; an insect within a bloom can look like a giant sci-fi scene; and bugs usually dismissed or feared like wasps and spiders take on an entirely different persona.