Reflections

Butterfly by Azam Rasouli - Photojournalism, Photography Award, Close-up Photography, Butterfly Photography, Azam Rasouli

The Weight of a Wing

To whoever made this, I have been thinking about the things we choose to hold still. We spend so much of our lives rushing, trying to outrun the clock, convinced that if we move fast enough, we might finally catch up to some version of ourselves…
Whiskers by Silvia Bukovac Gasevic - Close-up Photography, Animal Photography, Photo of the Day, Photography Awards, Light & Composition University

The Geometry of Softness

I keep a small, silver thimble in my desk drawer, worn smooth by my grandmother’s thumb until the dimples have almost vanished. It is a heavy, quiet thing that speaks of hours spent mending what was fraying, of keeping the edges of our lives…
Flowers Rainbow by Jeremy Negron - Nature Photography, Photo of the Day, Photography Awards, Flower Photography,  Light & Composition University

The Architecture of Bloom

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch economy briefly lost its collective mind over the shape of a petal. It was a fever of speculation, a moment where the intrinsic value of a bulb eclipsed the value of a house, or a life. We look back at…