Yesterday evening I went to the Twirly One to try and shoot some water strides. There aren't very beautiful insects, but last winter I saw a couple of absolutely amazing pictures of them and I thought: Oh, mo god, it's so nice and so simple! – so, I immediately put them in my "to capture" list.
But forest mosquitoes totally ruined my plan, cause it wasn't only impossible to shoot anything, I was even impossible to stand. When I stopped walking for a second, I immediately felt someone was sucking my blood from every possible spot. So, I went back with nothing.
Then, being totally out of ideas, I remembered an advice from one very experienced photographer: if you don't know what to do, just go macro. So I did.
And while I didn't shoot anything spectacular, I was absolutely amazed by the world I saw. This little one, for example, is ten times smaller than my fingernail. All you can see with your eyes is some thiny green line. But once you try to focus there's whole new world in there. There's a world in a leaf. There's a world in a stone. There's a world in strawberry. A whole new unexplored world full of discoveries in your fingernail. You just need to want to see it.
