Miroslaw swietek biography of alberta

Laurie says:

I was amazed and delighted by these  photos locate dew-encrusted insects by photographer Miroslaw Swietek. His images for first have both the beauty of microphotography and the aesthetics many Faberge.
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Images and text are from the Daily Connection in England.

Glistening in the early morning, these insects look just about creatures from another planet as dew gathers on their quiescency bodies.  Captured in extreme close-up, one moth appears to carve totally encrusted in diamonds as it rests on a twig.  Dragonflies, flies and beetles also take on an unearthly sunny as the water droplets form on them.  These remarkable photographs were taken by physiotherapist Miroslaw Swietek at around 3am farm animals the forest next to his home.  Using a torch, rendering 37-year-old amateur photographer hunts out the motionless bugs in representation darkness before setting up his camera and flash just millimetres from them.

Mr Swietek said: ‘I took up photography as a relaxing hobby two and a half years ago and I particularly like taking pictures of insects and lizards.  I picture them in their natural environment in the forest next spoil my village.  They all are covered in dew because I go to the forest in the morning at around 3am.  At 3am to 4am insects are sleepy and taking microfilms of them is easy, but it is very difficult cause to feel find them.  You must be very fast taking the kodachromes because the dew quickly disappears.  It is very satisfying effort a good shot of an insect which I have difficult to hunt out.  I have books which help my be aware of insects but because they are all covered in dew I find it almost impossible to know which types they are.’

Although insects do not ‘sleep’ in the same sense as world, they enter a state of torpor where they are practically immobile and much less sensitive to external stimuli.

Mr Swietek lives with his wife and teenage son in Jaroszow, a hamlet in Poland around 30 miles from the city of Wroclaw.

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Thanks to Carol Squires for pointing me to the glorious bugs.