Looking Closer

looking closer

Jamie de Vorms

INTRODUCTION

Our world is beautiful. Now, you might be imagining tropical beaches, rolling hills, snowcapped mountains or dense forests, but I’ve been looking for beauty a little bit closer to home. Perhaps it's just outside the front door.

All my photos have been taken on short outings in Cambridge, where I live.

I have had to stick to the footpaths, but I’ve learnt you don’t have to go far to see the world. You just have to look closer.

Each chapter follows the changing of the seasons.

Beginning with Summer, where the air is full of buzzing insects, to Autumn, where dew and rain are abundant,to Winter, where the ground is covered in frost.

part one: insects

Weevil (5mm long)

Rosemary beetle (10mm long)

Autumn Fly, Musca autumnalis, eating smaller fly (4mm long)

Weevil (5mm long)

Common honeybee (23mm long)

part two: waterdrops

Dew drops on spider web, over moss

(field of view 25mm)

Dew drops on spider web

(field of view 70mm)

Dew drops on spider web, with moss (40mm across)

Water drop on Helichrysum

(field of view 40mm)

Water drops on Helichrysum

(field of view 40mm & 20mm)

Dew on Rose petal

(field of view 50mm)

Dew drops on spider web over seedling

(field of view 15mm)

part three: frost

Ice crystals on dead leaves

(Field of view 25mm)

Frost on Escallonia bush

(Field of view 15mm)

Ice crystal on dead leaf

(Field of view 25mm)

Ice crystals on moss

(Field of view 15mm)

Ice crystals on dead leaves

(Field of view 15mm)

Tubular ice crystal on black wheelie bin (Field of view 25mm)

Jamie de Vorms

Hills Road Sixth Form College

2022-23