I just worked out where the chaps who made the Predator series of films got their inspiration from 🙂
These little guys, well our ones are certainly not little anymore they are getting quite large, look absolutely freakish when you get up close and have a proper look 🙂 The other really neat thing about them is that whilst they have a standard insect compound eye, they have what looks like a eye ball on it.. and it moves, follows you around 🙂
Imagine being the size of a ant and coming across one of these in the bushes !
Taken with a clapped out 55mm f2.8 micro lens and the PK-13 extension tube
D750 coupled with Nikkor 55mm f2.8 @ 34mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 1/60s
ISO: 1600
External Flash thru a diffuser
This makes me very glad that I am all of 1.6 metres tall so that I don't ever have to look at one of these face to face again outside of your brilliant portrait. This is seriously frightening, or would be if were 1.6 mm instead!
+Carolyn Fahm your telling me! when I showed the girls they refused to hold them again 🙂
+Gerard Blacklock They probably think that you look freakish too!
+Nicholas Cardot lol true – they are probably more concerned with whether they are gonna get squashed 🙂