With time, we forget how beautiful the world is. This beauty surrounds
us all the time. With our eyes,
everything is fine, but we are blind. We don't see the colors, details, and
harmony between them.
Photographers and artists try to help us see again what we have
forgotten. This problem is trying to solve the photographer Levon Biss. He,
like all of us, misses his childhood. About that feeling of delight that we
felt looking around. Levon has looked for a new, extraordinary subject when one
afternoon he and his young son popped a ground beetle under a microscope and
discovered the wondrous world of insects.
Questions:
How
do you feel about insects? What was your
overall level of emotion while watching the video?
2 Have
you ever noticed how beautiful insects are? If so, under what circumstances?
Have
you noticed that you forget about the beauty of the surrounding world? How do
you solve this problem?
Comments
On the other hand I found those pictures really interesting and beautiful. Photos are really amazing.
I think people very often forget how beautiful our word is. I'm not this kind of person, I like to observe and notice nice things in my surrounding.
I loved to observe insects when I went for summer forest camping trips when I was a kid. My grandfather was an interested in entomology and used to collect insects. However, I find both insects collecting and taxidermy depressing, I much rather admire animals when they are alive.
Sadly, today's world is not made to pause and admire the beauty and oddity around us. How to change it? Maybe move the focus from ourselves to the outside world. Less smartphones, more trips to the wilderness? :)
I've heard about microphotographing befroe, and for me it is beautiful only from scientific point of view. I mean, it is cool that Levon do what he like and do it really good, but I don't think that the beauty of world starts fade for us as we grow. There is nothing bad in becoming more rational, and it also has it's beaty. And, by the way, sometimes, such searchies of worlds beaty look like simple escapism from problems of reality. Okay, our world is beautiful, in huge things and in small things, but what about ugly things? Are they sholud be avoided?
I don't know why, but that was thoughts that I've had while watching this video. I mean, Levon Biss' work is good, it is pretty, it has some meaning behind it, i'm okay with it. But in general, I think that we shouldn't concentrate so much on things that we consider beautiful, but instead we should concentrate on doing something that are bad and ugly.
As of video, amazing photography technique and attention to detail :P I find it interesting how children react to what could be their worst fears, horrors in real life (3 meters high insect pictures).
The only one insect,which doesn't make me irritated is ladybird. I haven't noticed yet how insects are beaufitul,unfortunately.
The only one thing,which may help us is returning to nature. Let's throw all smartphones out and only then we could notice the surrounding things and people
I saw some nice-looking insects, those were mostly random encounters, where per one nice, there were hundreds of annoying ones.
I don't have time for admiring the beautiful world with such accuracy, maybe later, but not right now.
I don't have a problem with insects. I don't panic when i see them but i don't feel big interest in them. In this film they look amazing and now i think that i should broaden my knowledge about them. I like nature and i know that it's amazing to stop sometimes and observe it. It help us to relax. For this problem i have only one solution. Stop and stare :D