Postcard

Cha Levias

Photography is not just equipment, film and technique, but what, how and when an image is captured. Where most people see vast landscapes, my visual exists on a significantly smaller scale. This philosophy opened up new worlds to me as my photography evolved. Starting with black-and-white film using a wide-angle lens, I then graduated to alternative films such as infrared, recording film and anything that provided a large grain.

It was a macro lens that unveiled a new world and showed me the power of minutiae. The texture, shapes, colors and light held new meaning and, through a macro lens, allowed me to become more intimate with my subjects. Instead of seeing subjects as a whole, I'm able to let my imagination show me other things that can be. Finding or watching things change and re-form themselves dramatically or ever so slightly simply by the rising or setting of the sun is my true inspiration. Colors can change into amazing hues during these times.