Macro photography by Tarpan
Beetles and bugs are perhaps the inhabitants of a bigger world than ours. It has been discovered that some dung beetles can orient themselves on a clear moon-less night even by the Milky Way. 1 And in Egypt, the name of the god Khepri, the divine manifestation of the early morning sun, was written using the scarab hieroglyph. 2
‘I just never grew out of my bug period,’ said the well-known entomologist EO Wilson once in an interview. When looking at bugs or beetles we may feel like saying this as well, and immediately slip back into our ‘bug period’. And if we are looking through our camera lenses, whoa!
The Beatles, the famous rock band, may have nothing to do with ‘beetles’. Their name evolved from ‘beat’ rather than from the ‘beet’ of beetles. But for sure, the Beatles will always remind us of beetles.
Beetles and bugs are always busy in another kind of band, another orchestra, immensely alive with humming, flying, percussion, skipping, hopping and long gaps of silence. Beauty and diversity is the theme of the orchestra. Abundant in patterns and shapes, rich in colours and designs, mysterious in sensitivity, spontaneity, they talk to us in an unknown vibe. They live in a different time zone, or timeless zone.
With camera or without,
open the eyes sometimes,
make a short Vipassana walk.
Be with beetles and bugs for awhile,
bathe in the brimming lives,
in love and alive.
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Note by the author: these photographs should be seen as artistic interpretations rather than nature photography.
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