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A Magic called Macro Photography

(A flower. Mi A2, with macro lens) How big is our world? Quite big, right? But how big are our gardens? Pretty small - for us, anyway. But in these gardens lie many tiny, micro creatures whose whole world is just the garden. The art (read 'patience') of capturing this micro-world is known as "Macro Photography". It's called so because the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life-size. I got into macro photography quite early on. It was something that I had liked even before starting my photography hobby. I bought a set of mobile lenses. It was exciting. I started taking macro pictures of everything. I mean, every single thing, from mud to carpets. They all looked so different in the pics. My very first pic in that lens was of a guava flower. (Honor 4X with a macro lens on) It's nothing, actually. But it was a start. There is always a learning curve. But the learning curve doesn't seem so tough when you're enjoying what you're doin