This week, Sarah from the blog Travel with Me is guest-hosting Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #210 and she is asking us to pick three favorite photos from different categories and explain why.
This week, it is Tracy from Reflection of an Untidy Mind’s turn to guest-host Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, and a quite difficult (at least to me) theme was chosen – Surreal.
I love macros. They are so exotic and different and really only can be seen either with a magnifying glass, a dedicated macro lens, or in my case, a good ol’ regular camera lens with a screw-on macro filter. These filters are tricky to use sometimes as everything must be completely still and as you can see from the below photo, it only magnifies a specific area of the image while blurring the rest.
Close up of Japanese Maple Leaves
Since the pandemic began in March 2020, I had not had the opportunity to photograph with my macro lens filters as I was being driven by work and anxiety to the point I had somewhat lost my muse and inspiration to make photographs. I hope to make some in 2021 as it’s looking like spring might be coming early. Therefore, please enjoy some pre-pandemic photos. These photos were from the beautiful spring of pre-pandemic world of 2019.