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Tawau Hills Day 5

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11 March 2015
Tawau Hills 2015: [ Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] The final day was short. So…
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Tawau Hills Day 4

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10 March 2015
Tawau Hills 2015: [ Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] We had been getting about 4…
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Tawau Hills Day 3

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9 March 2015
Tawau Hills 2015: [ Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] Day 3 at Tawau Hills was…
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Tawau Hills Day 2

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8 March 2015
Tawau Hills 2015: [ Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] After our first night in the…
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Tawau Hills Day 1

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7 March 2015
Tawau Hills 2015: [ Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 ] I had been wanting to visit…
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Peekaboo False Eyes of a Hawkmoth Caterpillar

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18 February 2015
Hawkmoth (Sphingidae) larvae, or caterpillars, can grow to relatively large sizes. Some of them may sport two prominent spots above their heads which appear…
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Macro Photography Workshop – BugShot Belize 2015

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6 February 2015
This workshop has concluded. Read more here: BugShot in the Belizean Jungles of Central America I am honoured to be one of the instructors at…
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Ever Wondered What Snail Embryos Looked Like?

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2 February 2015
We often see terrestrial snails loitering in the foliage, but have ignored them because they were too common. Their eggs however, were less common…
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Spider Creates Fake Spider Using Trash

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23 January 2015
Cyclosa is a genus of spiders commonly known as trashline orb web spiders that tend to collect detritus and decorate them on its web….
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Meet the Multi-Headed Caterpillar

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19 January 2015
Multi-headed creatures seemed to exist only in mythology and science fiction… until now. Meet the multi-headed caterpillar – it sports multiple heads, with the…
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2014 Macro Photography Highlights

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28 December 2014
2014 has been relatively quiet, but littered with many memorable shots. I made 46 field trips this year and maintained a relatively consistent lens…
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Feature Guide

5 unique ways to document our micro nature

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12 June 2014
My personal style of macro photography is closer to that of nature documentation than that of art. To me, it is more important to…
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2013 Macro Highlights

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31 December 2013
2013 has been an eventful year in my macro journey. Fired about 33,000 macro shots and uploaded close to 6,000 photos – at least…
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Back-lit Macro Attempts

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12 October 2013
Back-lighting is not a conventional way to light up subjects in nature and especially in macro photography, because it is inherently difficult to carry…
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Review

Eureka EDC-51 Dry Cabinet

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22 September 2013
I have recently been invited to try out the Eureka EDC-51 dry cabinet, in conjunction with the Singapore launch of the Eureka series of…
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The Peculiar Shaped Petai Flower

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28 August 2013
We were doing our usual roaming, looking for interesting arthropods, when a heavy object dropped from the sky and hit my arm. It appeared…
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NICKY BAY
Singapore

Hi my name is Nicky Bay. I am a macro photographer, instructor and book author, travelling the world to document the vast micro biodiversity that nature has to offer. Follow my updates and discover with me the incredible beauty and science behind our planet's micro creatures!

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