Up Close with Nature

I was the Featured Photographer for February 2012 in one of our local photography forums- PhotoMalaysia. Thank you, PhotoMalaysia. The thread can be found here.   Here is the interview: Q. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I am known as Kurt (orionmystery) to my real life photography friends and many more in some ten macro photography forums (and facebook!) I actively post in. I

My face-to-face with a longhorn beetle image won the Reader's Digest Unseen Asia 2011, March challenge. The prize is a Ricoh CX4. I have always wanted a compact camera/ point & shoot that I can carry with me at all times and also for blogging! The actual image is here: It is my first time winning something in a photo contest. I am so lucky! Thanks to Jeffrey Siow for the early good news.

My longhorn beetle macro image was on the front cover of the May, 2010 Ukrainian Photographer Magazine. 20 pages worth of macro images in this issue. I wish our local magazine would do the same some day.

My blog - Up Close with Nature - has been featured in Ted's Beetles In The Bush, together with five other great blogs. I am really honored. Thanks, Ted. Ted C. MacRae is a research entomologist with an interest in beetle taxonomy and specializing in worldwide Buprestidae and Nearctic Cerambycidae and Cicindelidae. He is also the organizer of An Inordinate Fondness, the monthly blog carnival