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Microscopic wonders bring unexpected sense of peace to local photographer

Snowflakes on a peacock feather that was sent to Holly Mead by a local farmer. Submitted Photo

Holly Mead, of Jefferson Township, regularly explores her own backyard in search of peace through the lens of her camera.

While Mead has been a photographer for more than three decades, also working as a freelance photographer for the Butler Eagle, she recently discovered a passion for macro photography, which can be best described as extreme close-ups of small subject matter.

“I had never done it before,” Mead said. “After 30 years of being in the business, I just thought it was cool just to see the little details, and now I’ve become obsessed with it. I look for those little details, and they’re all around us. It’s stuff that you don’t really notice.”

One of her main sources of inspiration has been capturing snowflakes that land upon an assorted host of objects.

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