Top 5 Amazing Macro-Photographers that inspired me to take my big camera into the forest everyday
“Hi, my name is Mika, and below you will see my top 5 photography friends who have inspired me the most on my business journey. I’ve been a professional photographer for 20 years, and if I hadn’t surrounded myself with people who were better than me, I wouldn’t have been able to go fully pro at that time. I believe you need to surround yourself daily with experts who are better than you so that they can push your creativity to new levels. If you stick with the same local friends your whole life, you won’t be able to achieve anything special.
That’s why I think 5F Mastermind is such an amazing place for anybody who wants to pursue their dreams at a higher level. When you surround yourself with people who want to achieve the same results as you and who push you every day, then you will not be able to fail.
All you have to do is commit to putting time and effort into your business or the passion you love the most every day from now on. That’s how you surpass the 99% of people on this planet.”
My Top 5 Macro-Photographers you need to follow:
1. Thomas Shahan
Thomas Shahan is renowned for his macro photography of arthropods; presenting them with startling clarity and vibrant detail. His work elevates insects to art, revealing the beauty in their alien-like forms and vivid colors, often showcasing the intricate textures and patterns of their eyes and exoskeletons.
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2. Ondrej Pakan
Ondrej Pakan is a Slovakian photographer, who made a name for himself in the world of macro photography with his incredible ability to capture the intricate details of insects and other tiny subjects. He has inspired countless others around the world with his style of photography.
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3. James Weiss
James Weiss is all about capturing the surreal beauty and diversity of micro-creatures like bacteria and protozoa.
His content is both extremely interesting and highly educational, as he often follows up his beautiful photos with extra information about the fascinating creatures in the image.
4. Nicky Bay
Nicky Bay specializes in macro-photography with a focus on arachnids. His technique illuminates the intricate patterns and structures of spiders, presenting these creatures in a transformative manner that underscores their architectural beauty, and the complexity of their design.
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5. Igor Siwanowicz
Igor Siwanowicz is an award-winning photographer known for his spectacular images of insects. With his background in biotechnology, he blends scientific precision with artistic flair, producing photographs that showcase the vivid colors and diverse forms of his tiny, often otherworldly, subjects.
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Imagine you can tap into your most inspiring friend’s mind and see what is happening in their brain.
Imagine you can see what routine they have in the morning, what they do during their work hours, how they relax after their job is done, how long they sleep, how much money they make, what they aim for, what they regret, and how badly they wish something amazing will happen to them.
Imagine you can go deep into the minds of not just your friends, but of 1% of the most successful people on this planet.
Have you ever dreamed of becoming the best at something?
Or at least the best in your town, class, club, or country?
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Now is your chance. We have built a system that helps you master your life to the point where you surpass 99% of others out there. All you need to do is change the circle of your top 5 friends, and commit to a 6-month challenge, where every day you will dedicate at least 5 minutes to something that will bring the greatest reward to your life.
7 Hacks that will help you to achieve more than 99% of people on this planet (CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS)
If you want to be great at something, you need to dig into that thing hard. You need to commit time and energy, and many times also money.
In the past for most of the high-paying jobs you needed a degree. You need to study very hard. The more expensive your education was, the better your salary should aim for in the long run.
But with a twist in the human brain and online technology, the time to accomplish amazing results becomes 10 times shorter. People have now many resources online, they can study much faster, and they can find new jobs with just a few clicks. If they can commit to something and go all in, they can surpass all those who went to expensive private schools and top-notch universities.
Today you can become much better at something in just 6 months, as before when you had to study for 6 years and more to achieve the same results.
#1 HACK - Learn how to do Deep focus sessions
The biggest problem today for 66% of people is lack of focus.
There are so many things flying around our minds, that we are just not capable of committing and doing it.
Commitment sometimes means that all you have to do is for the next 30 days watch a blank wall for 5 minutes.
But 99% of people will fail in this simple task.
They will find all kinds of excuses and reasons to stop it. They will say that the task is useless, boring, de-motivating, time-consuming, etc.
They will stop it probably on the 2nd or at least the 3rd day.
But those who will stick with it to the end, and maybe extend it to 3 or even 6 months, will become the 1%.
And sometimes all you have to do to surpass 99% of humans on this planet, is to stare long enough into a wall or a book, or at something that 99% will not want to do for so long.
Deep focus helps you to master something 10x factor and deep focus is what we at 5F Mastermind want you to learn.
#2 HACK - Create your 6-month plan
At 5F Mastermind we believe that if you want to become the best in your game, you have to commit to something longer than many others will.
That doesn’t mean that you need to work 10x harder or longer, but that you need to work 10x smarter.
Because if you work smart, you don’t need to work hard.
If you can commit that you will take daily action for the next 6 months, you will achieve outstanding results.
We believe that a 6-month period is enough time to dig into something very deep, so you can surpass 99% of the competition.
We also believe that a 6-month period is enough time to master your new habit for life. Because all those 1-week, 2-week, 30 and 60-day challenges don’t work in the long run.
If you want to go above others and yourself, you need to commit to something for a long enough time.
And 6 months is a perfect time to learn, practice, and master your new habit.
#3 HACK - Don’t be lazy! Do it like it is your last day on this planet.
If you are lazy, irritable, short, sarcastic, procrastinating, or making excuses when life gets hard, then it’s about time to change that. Your life can be good only if you become the 1%.
Many people on this planet become lazy at some point in their life.
When you cross 40 or 50 years, you become lazy by ‘nature’.
They all say your body is getting old, your muscles are not so strong anymore, your lungs will shrink, and your overall health will get worse.
They also say that more and more opportunities for good jobs will disappear, and if you still haven’t found a lovely and supportive partner, it’s gonna be even more miserable.
You believe all that as the world tells you it is what it is.
But it doesn’t have to be that way!
#4 HACK - Daily commmitment
If you can commit every day to walking or going to the gym no matter what, you will feel better than 99% of people who just watch TV and eat to make their bad thoughts disappear.
If you commit that every day you will do one photo if you like photography, or sing a song if you like music, then again you will surpass 99% of wanna-be photographers or musicians.
But here I’m gonna tell you a little secret. That will push you even higher!
You need to commit that every day you will make a better picture than yesterday, sing a harder song than yesterday, paint a better painting than yesterday, make more money than yesterday, complete more work than yesterday, and so on.
You need to challenge yourself to grow every day!
To do more in less time!
To do better than last time!
To earn more than yesterday!
To acquire more knowledge in 6 months than before in 6 years.
And that is the rule that will push you into 1% very fast.
You need to commit that every day from this point, you will strive to become better at the thing you want to master.
#5 HACK - Use diary to track your progress
If you start any kind of challenge, it is worth having some kind of diary near your hands.
The diary will help you track your progress on the daily, weekly, or monthly goals you set for yourself.
It will help you plan things you want to do or learn and remember important events, dates, and milestones.
It will also help you to deal with emotional pain, as hard times will come no matter how prepared or experienced you are.
The diary I use every day is a simple Notion diary.
If you are not familiar with what Notion is, it is an online tool for taking notes, tracking progress, organizing projects, etc.
I created a special 6-month 5F Mastermind Diary, which our members get when they enter the 5F Mastermind.
It is made so they can simply create a 6-month plan and track their daily progress.
When you have a clear goal of what you want to achieve, and what is going to be your daily steps or to-dos for the next 6 months, then your mind can relax and focus on those tasks.
If you don’t know your goal or end destination, then your mind will wander to all kinds of places you don’t want him to visit.
To master your life, your craft, your relationship, your health, your addiction, your finances, or anything else, you need to master your mind to a point that it doesn’t work on its own.
Because if it does, then all the bad will come after you.
And the bad is usually related to what society – parents, friends, neighbors, TV, radio, media – thought of you while being on this planet.
To become the 1%, you need to know how to deal with information that is out there, and how to teach your brain to use it most efficiently.
This book shows you a very efficient way to become a 1%.
All you have to do is commit daily to something you want to master, or something that will bring health or joy into your life.
In the next chapter, I’m gonna show you some simple steps that can change your life in the next 6-months.
#6 HACK - Surround yourself with like minded people who want to achieve same results as you - MASTERMIND
I created a special community for all action-takers who want to become the 1%.
My journey was very alone, as most of the things I had to figure out by myself.
And that means failing for more than 25 years because I didn’t have a daily plan and a group of people who would support my journey.
The problem was also that I didn’t know what I wanted in my life. And that was a very big problem.
When you get older, this problem somehow disappears because you already have a job, family, and hobbies you developed over the years.
But when you are young and full of optimism about what this life will bring, you are all over the place. Ideas are vivid and for you, it is not a problem to jump on a train of all kinds of all kinds of opportunities life brings to you.
The only issue is the tough time to pick the right one.
The one that will bring the most financial and health benefits to your life in the long run.
But let’s stop here!
Let’s think about the past. Let’s think of what we can do today, to achieve 99% of our capability in just 1% of time.
Let’s think about what we want to achieve in the next 6-months.
Do we want to master a craft we are already good at to a new level?
Or do we want to start something completely new, because we know that this new thing will bring us lots of happiness?
What about if we decided that in the next 6 months, we will surround ourselves with like-minded people, who want to achieve the same results or get the same jobs as we do?
What about if we make a daily plan and invite 5 friends to practice with us?
When life gets difficult, sad, or not worth living anymore, the best thing you can do, is to – CHANGE IT!
Change was very hard in the past like the education system we talked about at the beginning.
But with the rise of technology and smart tools, online education is super-powerful.
After reading this book, you already have the knowledge that 99% of humans don’t have.
You know that to become the 1%, you need to take daily action for at least 6 months.
And you also know that you need to challenge yourself to become better every day!
If you take only these two things out of this book, you already surpassed many others who are stuck with their fake dreams hanging in the air of their drama.
Now there is something else that will skyrocket your success.
The 3rd ingredient that will make you a super-powerful human.
And that is the environment of action-takers who want the same as you.
And this is what our 5F Mastermind is all about.
It is a community of action-takers who want to become the 1%, who support each other on their journeys.
When you join our mastermind, you get access to tools and resources that will put you into 1% even faster.
You will be able to create your mastermind group of 5 to 10 people based on the goal you want to achieve or join an existing one.
You will also get access to main topic groups, resources, marketplace, job forums, business opportunities, partnerships, and so on.
Every mastermind group is different and we try to make them for specific needs people have.
Right now we developed a Photography Mastermind, Health and Fitness Mastermind, Wealth and Money Mastermind, Video and Film Mastermind, and Relationships Mastermind.
We just started but we have big goals, so please bear with us.
#7 HACK - Importance of networking
My biggest regret in life is that I never had a special community of like-minded individuals, with whom I could talk daily about the issues I want to solve or goals I want to achieve in my life.
I was always stuck with my 5 friends who had the same or even more miserable life as me.
They say that you are the product of your 5 closest friends. Or that your net worth is the average net worth of your closest 5 friends.
I came to these sayings just recently, and I regret I didn’t know the power behind this way before.
If I would spend my last 25 years with the most energetic people who want to become the 1% in the next 6 months, my life would be very different.
I am not regretting my experience, but I am just thinking out loud here.
If I didn’t go through all this shit in life alone, I would experience the breakthrough moment I got when I started doing things in deep-focus.
If I hadn’t surrounded myself with the top 5 online friends who are at the top of their game I wanted to be in and asked them to be my mentors, I wouldn’t experience the power and the wisdom these private 1% communities and masterminds can give you.
And that’s why I decided to provide this experience also to other people on this planet, who have dreams and will to become the 1%.
By coming to this point in this book, you already did the first big step. All you have to do now is plan your 6-month journey that will spark your 1% light.
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See you inside,
Matej
Hi, my name is Matt. I’m the creator of 5F Mastermind.
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Matt Oke is a passionate photographer, filmmaker, and musician, who one day decided to become one of the top 1% marketing consutlants. His struggles to survive as an independent filmmaker and musician, pushed him into the online game where he started to work as a media buyer and later advertising consultant.
But because his passion was still deeply connected to the joy that the previous art world gave him, he couldn’t get the business success he wanted. His business dream was always to gain money and then retire to continue the art he enjoys so much. But every business project he started to bring this dream closer, failed deeply.
The main reason was that he didn’t have the right mindset, the right knowledge, and the right network of supporting friends. At some point, he almost lost his house, his family, and his confidence to achieve anything bigger than working for some global corporation that doesn’t care for people like him. He started to drink heavily and gain lots of weight, just because he felt so miserable inside his heart.
One day he joined a Mastermind group, and then another, and another. He also found a great mentor who suggested that he surround himself with 5 smartest people in his field. He first selected the area he wanted to be very good at, and that was online advertising and copywriting. His mentor showed him the secret of how to succeed in that world.
A detailed 6-month plan that he also had to do, to become the 1% in his game. He said that all he needs to do to go from an amateur into a pro league is 6 months of daily deduction. He also gave him a daily blueprint that helped him to accomplish daily tasks on time.
Matej took the challenge and what happened in the next 6 months is a story of its own. He completed the challenge and in just 6 months and became so good at his craft, that many companies started to reach out.
Soon he caught the attention of the fastest growing companies in Europe, who paid him big money for his consultancy services on paid advertising. But that is not all!
He realized the power of deep-focused work and surrounding yourself with smart guys from different industries, so he opened his photography mastermind and invited 5 people in.
And then music mastermind. And cinema mastermind. And health mastermind.
Each mastermind became now an open community for high-level achievers who want to become the 1%. Either in the industry they work in, or in the field of life they want to improve.
Right now there are several 5F Mastermind groups open, where he together with his team helps others to take life back into their own hands.
If you want to join 5F Mastermind, click here and start changing your life!
Why 6-months you may ask?
Because when I started my transformation my mentor told me to commit every day to my craft for 6-months.
This is the length of time of determination that is needed to master something to a degree where you can call yourself a pro. This is the time you need to invest into your craft, which separates amateurs from professionals. Dedication that you will try every day for the next 6 months, to become the best at something you love, separates losers from winners.
Because you don’t want to start another thing and quit it after just a few days. You want to fully understand the top industry secrets, get top tools and resources, so you can become one of the top photographers in the game.
So if you are ready to take a big step into something that will change your photography, and also your whole life in the next 6-months, click the button below and get a special 50% discount.
See you inside!
Matt
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CONNECT – network with global photographers
INSIDE TRICKS – get inside industry information from the leading experts in their craft
GROWTH – form private mastermind groups on different growth topics
JOB OPENINGS – post a new job in just 30 seconds
PROMOTE YOUR STUFF – find new clients across the globe by promoting your work
MARKETPLACE – sell, buy, and rent equipment
MODELS – post a lookout for new models
COMPETITIONS – offer a prize for the best photo, and ask members to compete
INTERVIEWS – learn and get smarter every day
ASK FOR A FEEDBACK – expose yourself and let others help you
TOP10 CLUB – share your top 10 gear/books/documentaries/lenses/models/locations, etc.
B2B TALK – connect with other business owners in the photography industry
PODCASTS – listen to great podcasts about the photography industry
TALK AI – learn how photographers are using AI to create stunning images
TALK ART – Discuss photography art with other members
TOOLS & PRO TIPS – Review tools and gadgets, and give tips on best usage
MENTORSHIPS – offer mentorship for our members online or offline
MEET-UPs – connect with local photography peers in your area
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