Matt Doogue

Macro Photography with Matt Doogue

Episode 41: Show Notes.

In today’s world, we are oftentimes forcibly directed towards screens, towards being kept busy, and we ultimately miss out on so much of life and what the world has to offer. Our guest today is passionate about capturing those small things we miss out on. He creates visual art from his macro photography and shares them with the world. We welcome to the podcast Matt Doogue a.k.a Macro Matt. He is a macro photographer, outreach teacher, and Mental Health Ambassador. He has been published in most of the UK's top photography magazines and done features with BBC Earth, Canon, BBC Springwatch, and National Geographic. You can find his collections on OpenSea, which are A Liquid Singularity, Hidden World, and Spectrum Lobes. Then you can find his one of one work on Foundation. Don’t miss out on this conversation as we hear from Matt all about macro photography, how he got into his hobby, the importance of being aware to not miss out on everything that passes by, and so much more! Please note that this episode carries a trigger warning for an attempted suicide. Tune in today and enjoy!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Matt shares about his hardware wallet.

• His first thoughts when he heard about NFTs.

• What brought Matt to art and photography.

• Trigger Warning: For listeners who which to avoid Matt’s account of attempting suicide please skip audio between [0:10:00] and [0:10:47].

• How he discovered the macro photography world.

• He shares how macro art came into his macro photography.

• Matt shares about other jobs he’s done along the way, other than photography.

• What animal Matt would be and why.

• Matt shares some personal anecdotes about macro photography and praying mantes.

• Matt’s favorite food.

• He shares a piece of advice: learn to accept that bad things happen.