I photograph dry, fallen leaves as portraits. Isolated against a white background, they are removed from context and allowed to assert their individual presence—creases, veins, fractures, and asymmetries revealing distinct personalities shaped by time and decay. These images function as a reflection on the photographic camera itself: a tool that appears to faithfully translate a three-dimensional world into two dimensions, yet is always mediated by the photographer’s technical and aesthetic choices and by the perception of the viewer. Using deep focus through focus stacking, I produce hyper-realistic renderings that give the leaves an almost sculptural quality, especially when printed at larger-than-life scale. IN SIGNIFICANT LEAVES is not about documentation, but about attention—elevating the overlooked and exploring the quiet tension between objectivity and interpretation.