PORTFOLIO / Discoveries whilst travelling India (by Photographer M. ANGUS)

Enjoy my collection of 10 macro images taken in India. I love macro photography, I love working with Arthropods particularly and I love the thrill of exploring these micro worlds and ecosystems. This jumping spider was feeling ambitious and successfully bagged a Mantis about 4 times his/her body mass.

This Tiger Caterpillar happily munched on a leaf as I gently held a coloured piece of paper behind to create the colourful background, as backgrounds in macro tend to fall to black.

This jumping spider was happy to be photographed as it enjoy a tasty snack. If you look closely you can actually see me and my camera in the reflection of its eyes. Pretty sick if you ask me.

The compound eyes of a Dragon Fly are a wonder of the natural world, I believe the black part is the pupil. I call these the Terminators of the macro world.

This Phintella sp jumping spider is unique because of it fluorescent colouring, used as camouflage.

This Hopper has an expression of melancholy that intrigued me.

I've shot hundreds of Mantis but I love how this one captures it's main internal organ, the Heart.

A blue snail. Enough said.

Not visible from this image, this Ant mimic jumping spider has evolved to look like an Ant. I choose this one due to it curious peek a boo nature.

By far my favourite critter I've ever found. This gentle Sawfly Larvae, in the forst few hours of it life, is gentle, exploratory and like something out of Science Fiction. You can find another blog post featuring video footage of this specimen further down my Steemit page.

I hope you enjoyed this collection, there will be more to come!

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