Even through there are so many benefits to being a macro/close-up photographer, my favorite one is that all my images are originals.  

All my images shot in nature are of subjects that only lasted for a short time, and I was the only one to photograph it.  

Unlike landscape photographers that line up day after day to shoot the same iconic scenes at the national parks, nobody has photographed the exact subjects that I have.

See the image below, no other photographer has that image, only me.

So, we are lucky that what we shoot and share with people are all originals, that is pretty cool.