With The Eyes Of A Kid
Young Caterpillar Portrait (credit: Creative Commons)
What if we could maintain our curiosity about the world like when we were kids?
Commercial photographer, Levon Biss, had traveled the world for his work but was looking for something new and different. His young son brought him a ground beetle from their UK garden and Biss placed it under a microscope. He discovered the world of insects. With Biss's knowledge of lighting, adapting lens to microscopes, and image stacking he created a process for shooting insects in unbelievable detail.
The resulting portraits, each consisting of between 8,000-10,000 individual shots, is now a traveling exhibit, Microsculptures. Biss's is not a story just of photography but of inspiration that can arrive serendipitously from any place at any time. You just need to pay attention.
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