Nature in Close Up - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Nature in Close Up presents an extraordinary selection of photographs taken in the wetlands in Wuhan, China, revealing flora and fauna as they've never been seen before.

Nature in Close Up reveals flora and fauna like you've never seen them before. Award-winning nature photographer Yuan Minghui showcases his extraordinary sensibility and original eye for the natural world through his stunning selection of photographs of the wetlands in Wuhan, China. Each image surprises and thrills, rendering every object an artistic creation in its own right. Yuan Minghui's ability to create beautiful and meaningful images from our surrounding environment is startling; from winding vines that look like treble clefs and floating aquatic plants with diamond droplets, to the unseen glimpses of insects and amphibians playing out their extraordinary lives. Yuan Minghui sets out to give each and every object the beauty and dignity that he sees in ordinary human life, with the aim of emphasizing the importance of our planet and how we need to give it the care and attention that it deserves.

About the Author

A world-class nature photographer, Yuan Minghui is the winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the German International Glanzlichter, the UK IGPOTY, and the US-hosted NBPA. He is the only Chinese photographer to have won the internationally-acclaimed WPY - the Oscars of nature photography (in 2014, 2019 and 2021), with Italian magazine Asferico describing him as the first Chinese nature photographer to be recognized worldwide. He published The Microcosmos: A Fairytale of Close-up Photography in 2017.