Editor's note: This excerpt first appeared in photographer and author Harold Davis' recent Focal Press book, Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Photography with Harold Davis.
The closer you...
... nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people
needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be
protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic,
we take pictures.
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