Courtney Victoria – It Was Always There: How Macro Photography Trains You to See What You've Been Walking Past | Episode #282

About this episode

Courtney Victoria discusses her journey in macro photography and how it has transformed her perception of nature.

In this episode, Perrin sits down with Courtney Victoria, a UK-based macro and nature photographer whose work finds fantasy and storytelling in the smallest corners of the forest floor. Courtney talks about how a first-year university darkroom session accidentally sparked a lifelong obsession with photography, why she almost always leaves her camera in the bag when she first arrives at a location, and how getting into macro completely changed the way she moves through a woodland. She gets into the mindfulness behind her process, what it actually takes to find a composition at extreme magnifications, and why having no goal at all is often the thing that unlocks her best work. Check out the episode article here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/ courtney-victoria Want to support the show? Click here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/supporter/ Join our online photography community to interact with photographers just like this, get access to fun photo contests, find inspiration daily, and much more! https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/join/

People in this episode

Host: Perrin

Guest: Courtney Victoria

Topics covered

• macro photography
• nature photography
• mindfulness
• composition
• storytelling

Keywords

• macro photography
• nature
• photography process
• composition
• mindfulness

Mentioned in this episode

Places: UK

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