Up Close with Nature

Plan a herping / macro tour with us. More details here on Orion Herp Adventure Travel website. My second herping trip of the year. January 20th, 2014. It was one of the best herping trips ever! Just look at our haul and I am sure you'll agree. Note: the color profiles of these images are in AdobeRGB and may appear washed out/pale in certain browsers. A baby Striped Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis

Plan a herping / macro tour with us. More details here on Orion Herp Adventure Travel website. Montane forest, Banjaran Bintag, Perak, Malaysia. Jan 3 to Jan 5, 2014. All images taken with a Canon 40D, Tamron AF 60mm f/2.0 , Canon 270EX II   , and DIY Diffuser. Mostly taken at night. The first herp we found was this little Mock Viper (Psammodynastes pulverulentus) The only other species of

2013 is coming to an end and as usual, I went through all my 2013 images and came out with this mosaic. Again, created using Big Huge Labs' Mosaic Maker. Only a couple of new lantern bug species for 2013, but lots of new reptiles and amphibian images. Definitely looking forward to photographing more snakes in 2014! 800x800 pixel mosaic Since the bigger mosaic might not work, here's a smaller

Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pests. (Source: Wikipedia) So only 30 species out of 4,500 are associated with human habitats, and out of the 30 species, only 4 of them are pests! Just because of these four pest species, there's really no reason to

Some of the creatures I photographed during my macro/nature photography trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo). Pyrops heringi - the main reason for the impromptu trip to Kota Kinabalu :D Unfortunately, this rare beauty was on a tree on a slope and we couldn't get any closer. Cropped from this image. A 400mm F5.6 would have come in handy at that time! More amazing lantern bugs /

Pardon the cheesy title. I posted an eye shot in my Facebook album and someone teasingly commented that I should create an album just for eyes shots! Peters' Forest Gecko (Cyrtodactylus consobrinus) Cat Gecko (Aeluroscalabotes felinus) Malaysia Bow-fingered Gecko / White-eyed Forest Gecko / Beautiful Bent-toed Gecko (Cyrtodactylus elok) Marbled Bent-toed Gecko (Cyrtodactylus quadrivirgatus

Some of the creatures we found while on a macro trip to Krabi, Thailand. A harvestman with raindrops and mites on its legs. Antlion larva we found under the stilt house Adult antlion, Myrmeleon sp. For more Neuropterans of Malaysia, click here. Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) For more cool reptiles and other herps of Malaysia, click here. A cute Acanthosaura cf. crucigera (ID credit: hisno