Guardian Camera Club: Robert Proctor on macro photography

Edwardian Bank, Crieff: Probably a later doorbell, but I was also interested here in the heavy wood, red sandstone and glimmer of the modern bar beyond
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Post office macro: Stone, marble, bronze and lettering. Just taking the macro idea, and trying to make it into building pictures which put the close up in a context. Also enjoying the shallow depth of field on a dark day, which produces a sort of cross section of crispness
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Doorbell macro: A very cute pair of houses, one with verdigris doorbell stuck to the pink sandstone with a spider's web
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Crieff is a miniature exhibition of untouched shopfronts through the ages - even some interiors left largely intact for a hundred years. An unexciting angle on this perhaps, but it was the only way to get a touch of shop display colour through the window to offset the purples of the metal
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Now a bar, this grandiose red sandstone neo-classical bank would have been at home in Glasgow. I quite like the effect of the shallow depth of field's slicing of the moulding. Also trying to place the close up in its context - on the high street of Crieff, small shops opposite
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