Photo: Making Friends with the Very Small
"...to boldly go where no one has gone before..." Sure, it's a tagline from Star Trek, but it applies to photography also. It's one of the reasons for photography, I think...to see things no one else can see. To really stop, and really LOOK, and get down on your hands and knees and see things you never knew about before. And, more importantly, to try to record those things after you've seen them. That's why I'm into close-up photography, or "Macro" photography. Did you know bees wear fur? Did you know beetles have spikes on their collars, like a natual built-in punk rocker fashion design? You can't make out a bug's fashion sense from five or six feet in the air...you have to climb down to his level, look him in the eye, ask him nicely to hold still...and hope he's in an agreeable mood... I enjoy shooting bugs and flowers and water droplets and anything else that will sit still long enough for me to zo...