When we step on the spring, we see peach and willow green, and enjoy the warm breeze. But there is a person in Hangzhou, and the spring he sees is different.
Grasshopper Photography Ma Guofeng
What he saw was a world that would be ignored by the vast majority of people.
Stink Bug Photography Ma Guofeng
Unicorn Immortal Photography Ma Guofeng
This is the world of small insects. To be precise, it should be the insect world in Ma Guofeng's macro lens.
Ants walking on the grass Photography Ma Guofeng
Red Bug Photography Ma Guofeng
Girls, you see moths, praying mantises... Did you run away screaming a long time ago, but I think, if you see these pictures of Ma Guofeng, maybe you will fall in love with these little insects.
Butterfly larvae Photography Ma Guofeng
Yellow-tipped pink butterfly photography Ma Guofeng
Ma Guofeng's WeChat name is Lao Ma, and his avatar is a cartoon of him with some insects, from which you can see how much he loves them. Lao Ma said that most of the insect photos he took would be in the circle of friends, and everyone liked it, so one of his friends specially designed a WeChat avatar for him.
House fly photography Ma Guofeng
Butterfly Photography Ma Guofeng
Lao Ma is a native of Hangzhou and was born in 1968. He studied art and graduated from the first art vocational school in Hangzhou, the May Fourth Vocational School, which is now called Hangzhou Art Vocational School. Lao Ma said that he has been engaged in design work since graduation, starting with interior design, and at the end of the 1990s, he began to do water feature design, and around 2000, he began to focus on garden design.
Ladybird on mushroom Photography Ma Guofeng
Ant Photography Ma Guofeng
Regarding photography, Lao Ma began to contact in 2008 for the sake of children, and then the children grew up, took less pictures, and began to shoot other things. Because of the working relationship, the contact is all flowers and grasses, I began to shoot plants, began to pay attention to many foreign macro photography works, and then began to shoot insect macro.
Mo Cicada Photography Ma Guofeng
Praying Mantis Photography Ma Guofeng
Shooting macro is different from other photography, it requires the photographer to have a very strong ability to observe. Lao Ma said that when photographing insects, the most important thing is patience. Sometimes looking for a day or two, did not find a suitable insect, sometimes take a day or two, can not take a satisfactory picture, only to understand the habits of insects, more practice, more communication, always can take a good photo. He said: "When I first started learning macro, I looked at other people's photos and thought I could shoot it with a macro lens with a camera, but the truth was that as soon as I approached, the insects scared away. Later, after constantly learning knowledge and knowing the preferences of insects, I slowly began to take these photos. In addition, insect photography has high requirements for the weather, because as long as there is a one-millimeter error in focus, it is possible to make the photo a waste film, so it is impossible to shoot when the wind is strong. These experiences are all about constant shooting. ”
Jumping Spider Photography Ma Guofeng
Voyeuristic Bean Lady Photography Ma Guofeng
Lao Ma usually goes to two places to photograph insects the most, one is by the West Lake, and the other is Tianmu Mountain.
Snail Photography Ma Guofeng
Weevil Photography Ma Guofeng
The West Lake is close, and you can usually go there. It's just that the shrubs in the Scenic Area of Hangzhou don't let you in casually, so the old horses are still used to going to the wild to shoot. The most visited wild is the West Heavenly Eye. Lao Ma said: "Basically every summer, a few photographers who like to play macro will make an appointment on the weekend and go to Tianmu Mountain to take pictures. We would stay at the farm for one night, but we didn't dare to live in the tent outside, for fear of snakes. Then get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to look for bugs. At this time, the test is patience, and it is normal to squat in the bushes for three or five hours. And the most painful is the mosquito bite, when taking pictures, mosquitoes bite on the hands, do not dare to move, a move of insects will scare away, do not move that itch ah, sometimes the photo is taken well, mosquitoes have been drunk and flying can not move. ”
Ye Jia Photography Ma Guofeng
Fly Photography Ma Guofeng
So sometimes when I go out with an old horse, it's likely that my friends are watching the scenery, but he feeds mosquitoes in the grass.
Spider Mantis Hunting Photography Ma Guofeng
As for the knowledge of insects, Lao Ma said that he did not know very well, because he did not study insects. But in the process of shooting insects, he also fell in love with these "inconspicuous" lives, Lao Ma said, photographing them, in fact, is also photographing life, when shooting these insects, he will not take unconventional means to pose, what he wants to do is to share the wonderful life of these insects with everyone through photography.
Ants Photography Ma Guofeng