Up Close with Nature

My Orthoptera collection. All from Peninsula Malaysia, and East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak in the Borneo Island) Up close with a Dragon Head Katydid. A male Lesina sp.. (IDed with the help of Ming Kai Tan) Selangor, Malaysia. Face to face Profile shot Full body shot. Lichen mimic katydid, Olcinia sp. Check out other amazing examples of camouflage in nature here. Unidentified katydid.

My assassin bug collection. All from Malaysia. Merged from 6 images (3x2) in CS3. Merging tutorial can be found here. Found this at night. Thread legged assassin bug with mantis-like claws. Not sure if it's a Emesaya sp. or Stenolemus sp. or something else? Another one, not sure if it's similar to the above And another.. A bunch of assassin bugs of different instar stages on a tree

I have seen similar pits under the hostel building when I was in Kuching, and again, in Tawau. I thought they were antlion pits at first, but upon investigation, turned out to be something else. No antlion larva inside, just a worm! See how this wormlion deals with an ant that falls into the pit! The worm looks like this: I posted the gif animation on my Facebook and within minutes, got the

This is my friend, Steb1's Macro Rig. He uses a small flash which is mounted onto a Cokin P type square filter holder and square filter lens hood. Steb1 is also the one who started the concave diffuser! In his own words: A side view of the set-up. It shows a foam concave diffuser with the end folded up, and the flash has additional elastic bands to hold it secure. It is only a cheap Polaroid

2012 is coming to an end soon and as usual, I went through all my 2012 images and came out with this mosaic. Again, created using Big Huge Labs' Mosaic Maker. Only one new species of lantern bug for 2012, but I did manage to find an adult Zanna sp. so it wasn't too bad at all. 1. IMG_5377 stk copy, 2. R0020636 copy, 3. IMG_4804 copy, 4. IMG_3666 copy, 5. IMG_3810 copy, 6. IMG_3543 copy, 7.

Melvyn Yeo's Macro Rig. His rig consists of the Canon 5DM2, Canon 100mm L macro lens, Extension Tubes, Raynox DCR 250 closeup filter, 270ex flash and  DIY diffuser. You can check out more of his works on his DeviantArt page here and Facebook page here. 270EX on the hotshoe with a reflective board to push the light downward, and diffused by a huge concave diffuser attached to the front of the

Tropical reptiles and tropical amphibians. All photographed in West Malaysia and some from East Malaysia (Borneo). Edit: This post won't be updated anymore because it is getting way too long. While this post will remain, I have also created "Tropical Frogs", Tropical Lizards" and Tropical Snakes, which I will update from time to time. Lizards of Malaysia Cat Gecko (Aeluroscalabotes felinus),