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Daru’s View:

Small things made large... Big things made small

Photography can be used to make big things small enough to fit in your living room, or small things large enough to reveal something unseen. I do both: I focus on small parts of large landscapes, or I enlarge tiny things so they are noticeable. I never take a set of macro photos that I don’t see something I’ve never seen before. Sometimes it’s just unnoticed beauty; sometimes it’s a startling creature...

I’m also excited by abstracts in nature, living things that form a pattern that at first may appear to be chaotic, but slowly the mind and eye resolve it into a life form.

Sometimes I use Photoshop to eliminate the clutter, to allow the image to exist by itself, without context, its stark beauty enhanced by isolation. And sometimes I use Photoshop to distort and fantasize, suggesting not what is, but what might be...

Daru Stevens

Oakhurst, California

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