Spring firebugs

With their bright red back, fireflies undoubtedly are easy to spot and are among my favorite photography insects - after ladybugs of course :-)

The macro lens is really amazing for enhancing their tiny details: delicate antennae, eyes and legs.

Color bath


Face to face


Hesitant step

Spiders

Here again, don't scroll further if you're afraid of spiders!

As I belong to this kind of people, it was a really difficult task for me to take macro pictures of those spiders. They would regularly make a sudden movement that would cause me to jump 10 feet backwards screaming and/or with shaking hands & legs, since macro lenses make everything look closer and bigger than how they really are :-(

Danger ahead

Nightmare on a thread

Sun king

Unsuccessful hiding

It seems like the little insects below tried to hide, but were not so talented in doing so: an antenna is still showing, or the color camouflage went totally wrong ;-)

Long legged

Well hidden

Dangerous trap

Photo mash-up #20

Today theme will be: PURPLE GREEN!

That's quite an unusual color combination in Nature, thus really nice to see and capture :-)

Happy 'purple green' day :-)

Morning dew

A few morning dew pictures in a countryside garden (I miss this place so much now that I'm back in the city...)

I just love the texture of the tiny droplets hanging on the top of the leaves. 

And look at those terrible claws!!!

Color waves

Vegetal claws

An eye in the light

Long-legged

If you are afraid of spiders and crawling things, you'd better stop scrolling right now :-D

I wanted to focus on those two little creatures who had (in my eyes) amazingly long 'legs' as compared to their whole body size...

(I'm not so fond of spiders, so the photo-taking process was not really enjoyable for me, especially with the macro lens making everything seem closer and bigger!)

Wide angle

Posing crane fly

Little winged things

I was in the countryside for a few days last month, and had a lot of time to look for little things to take photos of :-) As expected, the first ones to catch my eyes were some small flying insects: less easy to frighten off, they would stay still all the time I needed to adjust my camera.

But soon after I managed to photograph other animals, I'll show them in future articles - still need time to process all of the billions pictures I took...

Afraid of heights

Curious glare

Water bubbles