I was on Nature Photographers online magazine when I saw I link to macro nature photographry. Macro phototography is something that has interested me for a long time, so of course I clicked on the link and found a photographer named Mike Moats. After briefly reading through his profile I was intriguied enough to go to his gallery. He said that he first did landscape photography as a hobby, but did not enjoy standing next to dozens of other photographers shooting the same scene and wanted to shoot something seen only by him. He eventually found macro photography.
I enjoyed scanning through the photos at his online gallery, tinylandscapes.com. Of all his galleries - leaf images, junkyard images, and lensbaby images - his abstract ones are my favorite. They are very detailed and clear, and of course taken very close in. Part of why I like these particular shots is you cannot neccessarily tell what the object in the picture is. The one above is of a bristol cone pine trunk. I love the rich color and the flowing lines, and that even though there is not much in the picture, it creates a lot of interest. Other photographs of rocks, shells, and feathers are equally amazing and fascinating to look at.
Moats also has great pictures of leaves and flowers. It is not often you get to see flowers as close up as in his pictures. I love that his photos are nature and landscapes, just like any other nature photographer, just from a different, and of course closer, view point..
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