FINDING WONDER IN THE TINIEST DETAILS – Macro photographer Carolyn Thome elevates the everyday in new Riverworks exhibition in the Artist in the House Gallery at Locals restaurant in Poolesville, MD.

Nature often inspires artists to go big, but Carolyn Thome delights in focusing on the smallest of sights. Like a painting of a seascape or sunset, her photographs inspire reverence for nature, only on an exquisitely tiny scale, offering vivid, close-up views of such diminutive marvels as a spindly mushroom, the petals of a flower, or the fine brown hairs on the head of a moth.

Nearly 50 of Thome’s photographs are featured in “Bigger Than Life,” on display from Wednesday, March 26, 2025, through Sunday, May 11, 2025, at Locals Farm Market, 19929 Fisher Avenue, Poolesville, Md. This show is the eighteenth Riverworks “Artist in the House” exhibition to be featured on the second floor of the historic Veirs-Stevens House at Locals.