WePhoto - 2015 - Macro - Vol 1
WePhoto “The Series” Macro & Close-Up Dear all, I am very proud to introduce the new collection “The Series”. It was not so long ago since we have launched the first eBook, including the photographic work of the 10 administrators, who at that time were cooperating in the “WePhoto” group. Since then, we have published 21 eBooks and the Special edition “Calendar 2015” and now two Calendars 2016. This new collection – The Series - is made of different eBooks, each one (or more than one if required) related to a specific photographic theme, including the artworks of several authors from Italy and abroad. This is the First eBook of the third line of this new collection and has been dedicated to Macro and Close-Up Photography.
We are all so excited and happy to be able to collect such beautiful images and, most of all to be able to share them with a wide audience. Spread, share, recommend everyone to download eBooks from our webpages and links below. Also make sure to leave your feedback on the eStores – 5 stars comments would be great. RATE IT! You can really help us growing and sharing our beloved passion for photography! In this eBook you can also find the links to our Facebook Group. Come and join, invite friends to share and enjoy some of the best images from around the world!
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Special thanks and Credits Special Thanks to Riccardo Noya, Director of our dedicated Page “Macro and Close-Up�, and Germana De Chellis, who help me in contacting Authors and collecting materials. Noya is also a GREAT Photographers (in the first volume he has is own portfolio) , They have been working in back office, choosing
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rithing. Thanks to all our Staff too, constantly managing and taking care of the Group with its 11 thematic pages and online magazines.
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Thanks to colleagues Admin, for their patience. Along this time that I have been away from the normal routine management of our network, and for the wonderful work they do every day with great passion. WePhoto Network the Founder Mario BunÄ?uga
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Copyright All rights are reserved, to respectively WePhoto, Mario Buncuga for entire ebook and single authors for personal photos included in the related chapters. This book can be downloaded for free and distributed freely only as whole. The images and text are of exclusive property of the authors who, prior personal contact, may authorize the use or not. you can also print from our link to Peecho online print service. Any other use will be fined by the existing rules on the subject of copyright. © 2015 WePhoto
© 2015 Mario Buncuga
© 2015 Barbara Cinigliano
© 2015 Art Lee
© 2015 Barbara Maestrucci
© 2015 Riccardo Noya
© 2015 Alfredo Prim
© 2015 Silvia Spedicato
© 2015 Pang Way
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Macro and Close-Up Questo genere fotografico descrive un mondo particolare, nascosto, piccolo, segreto. Addentrarsi in questo mondo non è facile. Oltre alla professionalità , alla cura dell'immagine, bisogna avere pazienza. Aspettare, esplorare luoghi invisibili per dare a noi la visione di una bellezza nascosta. Insetti che sembrano giganti delle favole, colori, forme affascinanti. Voglio ringraziare, a nome di tutti i lettori, questi esploratori che ci donano emozioni visive altrimenti irraggiungibili.Macro and Close-Up
Macro and Close-Up This photographic genre describes a particular world, hidden, little, secret. Explore this world is not easy. Besides the professionalism, the care of the image, you have to be patience. Wait, explore unseen places to give us a vision of a hidden beauty. Insects that look like giant of fairytale, colors, fascinating forms. I want to thank, on behalf of all readers, these explorers that we give visual excitement otherwise unreachable.
Mario Buncuga January 2016
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RICCARDO NOYA Pagina Facebook e-mail: riccardo-noya@libero.it
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Riccardo Noya Bari, Italy
RICCARDO NOYA M. D. in emergency room, living in Bari (Apulia IT). I have been an enthusiast since childhood of everything that nature has to offer us. My favorite readings were books of zoology, botany and entomology. I am fortunate to live near the Natural Reserve of Lama Balice and, a few kilometers, from the Regional Park of High Murgia. Often I visit these places to search for specimens to be immortalized in all their beauty or to searchfor caterpillars to breed so you can see and photograph the metamorphosis. I currently use a Canon EOS 700D with a Canon Macro 100mm f / 2.8L IS USM lens and my favorite subjects are insects and other small invertebrates. 9
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Pang Way Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
My name is pangway . I'm come from Malaysia Kuala Lumpur . I'm start my Marco hobby 2 year ago . I'm using Canon eos 550d , 100mm L lens & diy diffuser for my macro photography . 21
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ALFREDO PRIM Pagina Facebook
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Alfredo Prim Vigevano, Italy
ALFREDO PRIM , veterinary surgeon , resident in Vigevano ( Pv ) . I live in the Parco del Ticino , in the Lombard plain very close to Milan and Pavia , a protected area rich in biodiversity and this has encouraged my passion for nature in all its aspects . I am fond of photography since 1985 , when I started the first steps with an Olympus OM10 . After entry into the digital world I continued to capture images in my beautiful natural area and some years ago I fell in love of macro photography . Now I use a Nikon D5200 with a Sigma 150mm macro lens f.2,8 and I deal in particular , always in a non-professional way, of insects and flowers . 33
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BARBARA MAESTRUCCI Pagina Facebook babymaestra@libero.it
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Barbara Maestrucci Perugia, Italy
BARBARA MAESTRUCCI resident in Perugia (Italy). Photographing is stopping time with a click. I love every type of photography, especially naturalistic photography. Even though my favorite is macrophotography, it allows to observe a micro world, small and lovely; with the practice of this type of photograph I learned to respect these small animals. I started photographing 4 years ago and my vision of the world has totally changed: the photography gives you “another eye�! The eye of the fotographer that sees everithing around him accurately: a sunset, couple holding close or a ladybug on a flower!!! 45
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SILVIA SPEDICATO Pagina Facebook http://silviaspedicato.500px.com https://www.facebook.com/silviaspedicatophotography silviaspedicato@libero.it
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Silvia Spedicato Brindisi, Italy I am Silvia Spedicato, born in 1981 and raised in south Italy (Brindisi). After some years in Bologna where I graduated, I came back home in the South to work in my hometown, where I currently live with my husband and my dear ones. In 2014 my husband gave me some photography classes as a gift and in the same year I came into the world of macrophotography. I fell so in love with this new experience of macrophotography that I decided to buy another camera: a full frame Nikon D610 and a macro lens. But I love photography as a whole, so I am also fascinated by micro world: I find it fantastic and enchanting, I think it is like a dream and, at the same time, it is very emotional. I love taking pictures of water droplets and I’m also fascinated by what they can retain, fantastic reflected worlds. Every little drop of water is life, is magic. What lies on a soft petal of a flower seems to be suspended in time and it seems to be in harmony with the creation. 57
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BARBARA CIRIGLIANO https://www.facebook.com/ViaggioTraBorghiENatura https://www.facebook.com/orchideedellabasilicata https://www.facebook.com/donnecheamanolamontagna/?fref=ts http://viaggiotraborghienatura.blogspot.it/2015_06_01_archive.htm barbara7630@gmail.com
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Barbara Cirigliano Val d'Agri, Italy Barbara Cirigliano was born in Pinerolo,Tourin, in1976, but she grew up in the River Agri Valley, Basilicata, where her parents decided to return to be farmers. Here Barbara used to play pasturing the flock, feeding the calves, looking after pigs and helping in the fields . Today Barbara defines herself a " mother, wife and farm labourer". Her hobbies are to love and live Nature, particularly the Mountain, and Fotography . Her photos show us her deep sensibility towards her territory. Winner of many photografic competitions, she has organized several personal exhibitions. She widely uses Facebook to promote the natural wonders and the traditions of her land. Her fans adore her for being simple and humble even if so remarkable , and successful in what she does. A self-taught photografer, she keeps studying Fotography texts and listens gratefully to any advice. She says " if I stop feeling emotions towards a natural spectacle , this means that my soul is surely ill " For these shots she used a Canon 7d and a macro 100 2 .8 L IS .
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Art Lee Penang Island, Malesia
Hi! I am Arthur Lee a retire Ex Chef. Took up photography almost 6 yrs ago. But didn't practice much cos' of work commitment. Only these past 3 years able to bring my camera to the field. My favorite photographers are David Hobby, Joe McNally and Zack Arias distinguished Strobist. They are my idols. Once Joe McNally said, quote... , “If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.” Trying to bring these concepts into the macro world. Still in the process of learning. A long journey start with a small step. 81
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