{"id":24414,"date":"2026-08-16T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/once-i-started-zooming-in-i-never-stopped-the-mesmerising-art-of-macro-photography\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:38:40","slug":"once-i-started-zooming-in-i-never-stopped-the-mesmerising-art-of-macro-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/once-i-started-zooming-in-i-never-stopped-the-mesmerising-art-of-macro-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once I started zooming in, I never stopped\u2019: the mesmerising art of macro photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Converts describe a demanding form of capturing nature very close up that has grown in popularity in last few years<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/14\/cephalopods-bugs-vote-for-invertebrate-of-the-year\">Vote here for your favourite invertebrate of the year<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI always just pray \u2018please don\u2019t fly away\u2019,\u201d says Dara Ojo. As a wildlife photographer, he can handle spending minutes, hours and sometimes days waiting for the shot, but insects are not always very cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>Ojo is one of an increasing number of photographers turning their lenses towards something smaller: macro photography. This refers to photographing the natural world at an extremely close range, close enough to see the facets of a fly\u2019s eye, or the geometry of a spider\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/15\/once-i-started-zooming-in-i-never-stopped-the-mesmerising-art-of-macro-photography\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c13bcb16dde7787a446b58dc3387ccbceb0c2d3d\/0_0_3524_2819\/master\/3524.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a4fb99d9237fa9ca3d1e8f3beb918563\" title=\"\u2018Once I started zooming in, I never stopped\u2019: the mesmerising art of macro photography\" \/>Converts describe a demanding form of capturing nature very close up that has grown in popularity in last few years<br \/>\nVote here for your favourite invertebrate of the year<br \/>\n\u201cI always just pray \u2018please don\u2019t fly away\u2019,\u201d says Dara Ojo. As a wildlife photographer, he can handle spending minutes, hours and sometimes days waiting for the shot, but insects are not always very cooperative.<br \/>\nOjo is one of an increasing number of photographers turning their lenses towards something smaller: macro photography. This refers to photographing the natural world at an extremely close range, close enough to see the facets of a fly\u2019s eye, or the geometry of a spider\u2019s face. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converts describe a demanding form of capturing nature very close up that has grown in popularity in last few years Vote here for your favourite invertebrate of the year \u201cI always just pray \u2018please don\u2019t fly away\u2019,\u201d says Dara Ojo. As a wildlife photographer, he can handle spending minutes, hours and sometimes days waiting for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/once-i-started-zooming-in-i-never-stopped-the-mesmerising-art-of-macro-photography\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Once I started zooming in, I never stopped\u2019: the mesmerising art of macro photography<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}