Previous Insect Photography Project - Another World

In the second semester of the first year of my degree, we were briefed on a new module called ''Directions Within Photographic Communication''.

This module was about creating a concept for a book that we would self-publish.

We would consider all of the elements throughout the entire book-making process which consisted of:

• Devising the initial concept and having this agreed with our tutors.
• Producing the photographic body of work.
• Designing the layout of the book.
• Consideration of typography and type-setting.
• Production and printing of the book using the online book-making resource Blurb.

The concept of my book was based on my fascination with insects and macro-photography and was called ''Another World''.

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A screen shot from Blurb of my completed book, Another World.

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The introduction page from my book Another World.

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Fig 3-6 are some of the final images from Another World.

I kept a highly detailed blog for my Directions Within Photographic Communications module in which I produced my book Another World.

Here is a link to the blog: Directions Within Photographic Communication

I have a huge collection of insect photography that I have amassed over the last few years.

Some of the images are available to view online on my Flickr-Pro account in a set called ''Insects."

Here is a link to the set on Flickr: Insects

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Figure 7. A male, Common-Blue Damselfly that I photographed last summer.

This is one of my favourite insects. I am fascinated by the colours and the incredibly intricate detail of this insect that is only one and a half inches long.

This particular Damselfly has a small fly in it's mouth that is has captured and is about to eat.

I did not notice this when i was capturing the image as it was very hard to see with the naked-eye and I only noticed it when I uploaded the image onto my computer.

This is something that i love about macro-photography. It is always full of little surprises like this.