Photographing natural forms

A photographer that I am familiar with from previous work is Karl Blossfeldt, within his work he photographs natural forms such as plants and stems, he is most known for his series of plant portraits in which he was able to show the small details of different plants and reveal the things that would not necessarily be seen by people.

 

 

 

In the images above you can see the small  details on the plants that wouldn't always get noticed by people and what he wanted to do was show people these things. He was inspired by plants and the way in which they grew so this is why he documented them in this way, he believed that plants are valuable to us. He took these photographs with a homemade camera, on which he made so it allowed him to magnify the original scene up to thirty times its original size, which allowed him to pick out and show the tiny details that would go unseen.