In my opinion, you cannot say you have thoroughly seen anything until you have got a photograph of it, revealing a lot of points which otherwise would be unnoticed, and which in most cases could not be distinguished. Emile Zola, 1900

(About DETAIL and MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY)

I just started a summer series of marco shots, and my friend, in whose garden we were taking the pictures, expressed his surprise about the results later by email "You don't realize how beautiful the flowers are until you see this detail". That is exactly what Emile Zola conveyed more than hundred years ago. Photography, and macro photography in particular, offer this privilege of the exceptional close look. A whole new world unfolds before your eyes, normally invisible because of the fleeting transient ephemeral nature of life's moments or simply because we are unable to look close enough. Photography has the power to bring eternity to a moment of life. The ability to freeze a split second, and make it last, allows us to escape the rush of time, stop and review. The frozen moment can make a variety of meaningful layers visible, which have the potential to take you into another dimension of understanding. Significant moments, filtered from life's flow by photography, have made history or are just gifting us daily delight, making it possible to enjoy the very special smile on the face of a loved one over and over again. A photograph may suddenly make us realize something about others or about ourselves which we hadn't noticed before. We could judge the quality of a photograph by how much it is able to tell us. Macro photography opens the eyes for detail and beauty which normally eludes our perception. By emphasizing what we normally don't see, it fascinates. Either way, the fascination is sparked by surprise about seeing things in a new and different way.


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Emile Zola

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