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Close Ups de pencil shavings

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Greetings, friends of this community. I intend to start a series dedicated to close-up photography. I take these with my cell phone, and they often look like true macro photographs, without actually being so.

Anyway, here's the first example of the shavings left by a pencil sharpener.
These shavings (waste or trash to most) observed in close-up photographs reveal themselves as an accidental work of art, geometric art, if you will.

It's about transforming waste into art, giving it aesthetic value, recognizing that there will be those who might be interested. Its scalloped edge, made of dark wood, curves with a visual rhythm of geometric peaks. We begin to find a resemblance to a crown, or the "faralao" (Spanish) that adorns the edges of many women's dresses.

I proposed a staging where the shaving takes on the appearance of a black hole; A dark cavity with traces of graphite teeth at the end. At least I was able to find a moment of contemplation, both while taking the photos, editing them with Lightroom, and then selecting those that impressed me most.

I hope you enjoy them as photographic art.