Look Into My Eyes
While helping out in a friends garden down in Sussex, I spotted this little caterpillar very much in danger of getting stepped on, so I rescued it. My gardening work was forgotten as I dashed to find my camera and macro lens. Despite me having saved it from likely death by squish, it proved to be a most uncooperative subject, very reluctant to hold still to have its picture taken.
Maneuvering it into a suitable position for the head-on shot I wanted proved tricky - I wanted to avoid direct contact to prevent harming the caterpillar and didn't want to touch its tiny hairs which I expected could be irritating. This beautiful face belongs to the caterpillar of the Buff-tip moth, Phalera bucephala.
No caterpillars were harmed in the making of this photograph. When I was finished, it was allowed to crawl to safety underneath a courgette plant.
Look Into My Eyes
While helping out in a friends garden down in Sussex, I spotted this little caterpillar very much in danger of getting stepped on, so I rescued it. My gardening work was forgotten as I dashed to find my camera and macro lens. Despite me having saved it from likely death by squish, it proved to be a most uncooperative subject, very reluctant to hold still to have its picture taken.
Maneuvering it into a suitable position for the head-on shot I wanted proved tricky - I wanted to avoid direct contact to prevent harming the caterpillar and didn't want to touch its tiny hairs which I expected could be irritating. This beautiful face belongs to the caterpillar of the Buff-tip moth, Phalera bucephala.
No caterpillars were harmed in the making of this photograph. When I was finished, it was allowed to crawl to safety underneath a courgette plant.