During my senior year in high school, I did a photography project using macro lenses to capture the miniscule details in objects like leaves, sparkly things, etc. It was a lot of fun and what I most liked about it was that it offered a way to abstract common objects using the photographic medium. While photography seems to be criticized often as too straight-forward of a medium in the fine arts, I think this challenges that idea. Though of course, there are other ways to do this.
The project altered my perspective on the ways I view everyday objects- if you look at something the right way, it can be beautiful. Steel pipes for example, have really interesting patterns from rust, etc. The texture is often very interesting. In the past year I have done a few projects in the same vein. I did one project of Max's body which I submitted to the all campus art show last year, and I did another project with molded beets. Below is a project I just did with a termite that I found on my rug a few weeks ago. I like the way a close up shot brings your attention to depth of field, what is in focus vs what is not, and especially, texture.
Here is one of the beet project:
And one of the body project:
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