>>3187543because it lets you see things you otherwise never would, like the picture you posted. i'd never be anywhere near that iceberg, but i get to see it because somebody else with a camera was. and when you combine that with the rise of camera technology and ways to share and view pictures and multiply it by the population of the entire earth, you end up with getting to live in a time where your ability to see incredible things is at its most accessible and expansive state.
but there's the other side of the coin too, where it can be just as interesting to see the kinds of mundane scenes or objects you interact with on a regular basis through somebody else's perspective and see it in a way you never have before. i think that's what's especially cool about macro photography, just getting to notice all the little details that you never would unless you walked around jamming things into your eyeballs all day.
and that's just taking pictures, post processing has become its own enormously deep thing with a million different totally valid routes to take. just look in any editing practice thread on here and you'll see a bunch of distinct takes that all stem from the exact same raw materials and were all most likely worked on in the exact or close to the exact same set of tools.
