Tawau Hills Day 1
[ Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] I had been wanting to visit Sabah for the longest time, but clashed schedules and many other issues held it back until this year. I was more than impressed by...
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[ Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] After our first night in the wet trails, we couldn't wait to explore the same trails in the day. The sun rose an hour earlier than in Singapore, and the...
View ArticleAdorable Tortoise Orb Weavers from the Amazon
Earlier this year, I was invited by Rainforest Expeditions to visit their ecolodges in Tambopata, deep in the Peruvian Amazon to document the rich diversity of exotic micro fauna. This is one of the...
View ArticlePeruvian Amazon's Thorned Heart and Other Thorn Orb Weavers
More from the Peruvian Amazon[ Tortoise Orb Weavers | Thorn Orb Weavers ] In my recent week-long adventure into the Peruvian Amazon kindly made possible by Rainforest Expeditions, one genus of spiders...
View ArticlePeruvian Amazon's Roly Poly Spider and Other Exotic Orb Weavers
More from the Peruvian Amazon[ Tortoise Orb Weavers | Thorn Orb Weavers | Roly Poly Orb Weavers ] In the last 2 nights of my trip to the Peruvian Amazon organized by Rainforest Expeditions, I...
View ArticleBugShot in the Belizean Jungles of Central America
In August 2015, I travelled to Belize to conduct the BugShot workshop along with John Abbott and Thomas Shahan attended by some of the most passionate macro photographers on the planet. I'm compiling...
View ArticlePeruvian Amazon's Jewel Caterpillar: The Forest Nudibranch
More from the Peruvian Amazon[ Tortoise Orb Weavers | Thorn Orb Weavers | Roly Poly Orb Weavers | Jewel Caterpillar ] There were many fascinating finds during my week-long stay in Tambopata Research...
View ArticleFaces of 20 Spider Families from the Peruvian Amazon
More from the Peruvian Amazon[ Tortoise Orb Weavers | Thorn Orb Weavers | Roly Poly Orb Weavers | Jewel Caterpillar | Spider Faces ] From my recent week-long stay in the Peruvian Amazon, I found and...
View Article50 Tiny Creatures You Never Looked Up Close In the Amazon
GMore from the Peruvian Amazon[ Tortoise Orb Weavers | Thorn Orb Weavers | Roly Poly Orb Weavers | Jewel Caterpillar | Spider Faces | 50 Tiny Creatures ] Many tourists, explorers and researchers visit...
View ArticleSingapore's Hidden Treasures - A 2015 Collection
If you had ever traveled to Singapore, or even lived in Singapore, you would probably have missed seeing most of what I'm about to show here. This is a collection of some of the memorable photographs...
View ArticleMalaysia's Top 100 Macro Shots from 2015
Malaysia has some of the most dazzling arthropod life. The Borneo rainforest is 140 million years old, making it one of the oldest rainforests in the world and home to countless species of macro...
View Article5 Mysterious Structures from the World's Smallest Architects
h2.category { margin-top:20px; background-color: DarkCyan; color:white; padding: 8px 10px 8px 10px; } The rainforest is a giant trove of mysteries. When zooming into the micro world, I saw natural...
View ArticleAlien Transformations Under Ultraviolet
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View ArticleMaliau Basin - The Lost World of Borneo
h2.category { margin-top:30px; background-color: DarkGreen; color:white; padding: 8px 10px 8px 10px; margin-bottom:10px; } For the longest time, I had been wanting to visit the Lost World of Borneo....
View ArticleNight Macro Photography Workshop @ Pulau Ubin, 28 May 2016
h2.category { margin-top:20px; background-color: DarkCyan; color:white; padding: 8px 10px 8px 10px; } Note: This photo is not from Pulau Ubin but amblypygids are typical nocturnal crawlers that you...
View ArticleNight Macro Workshop at Pulau Ubin
h2.category { margin-top:20px; background-color: DarkCyan; color:white; padding: 8px 10px 8px 10px; } Photo by Melvyn Yeo The first Night Macro Workshop at Pulau Ubin has concluded with a maximum...
View ArticleSpider Photo Exhibition at Senckenberg Natural History Museum
From 15th July 2016 to 8th January 2017, I will have a gallery of spider photos exhibited at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. The Spider Exhibition or SPINNEN, which means...
View ArticleLaowa 12mm F/2.8 ZERO-D Ultra Wide Angle Lens Preview
h2.category { margin-top:20px; background-color: DarkCyan; color:white; padding: 8px 10px 8px 10px; } Last month, Venus Optics contacted me and asked if I would like to try out their new Laowa 12mm...
View Article51 Huntsman Spider Portraits from Singapore - Happy 51st Birthday!
Purchase Poster Singapore celebrates her 51st birthday today, so here's a tiny collection of close-ups of one of the most majestic spider families in Singapore - the Huntsman Spiders (Sparassidae)! I...
View ArticleTrilobite Beetles: "Prehistoric" Creatures of our Forests
Trilobite beetles are not prehistoric. They merely resemble the extinct trilobite and adopted the name due to the visual similarity. However, that didn't stop some passionate photographers from...
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