Visual China 500px Photography Community: When did you start photographing insects?
Visual China 500px photographer Rufeng: This goes back many years ago, and it should have been 9 years in retrospect, and I remember when I first started, it was the second year of having a SLR camera, and I began to like photographing insects. At that time, there was no teacher around who could learn to communicate, so I could only slowly grope and shoot on my own, and the most photographed was flies, because I did not know how to find more other insects. Later, I saw a lot of beautiful pictures on the Internet, so I watched and asked while learning, until now.
▲Crystal bead chain. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
▲The afterglow falls. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
▲ On the surface of the water, a dragonfly is resting. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
▲Dream sunset. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
▲ Color crenology yoga. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
Q: Let's talk about interesting events during filming.
Ru Feng: To tell you an interesting thing that happened during the shooting process, in the summer of 2020, I went to the outside city to shoot dragonfly feathering.
After dark, he successfully found a strange dragonfly (water worm) that had just climbed ashore by the river, and he lay quietly on a rock, ready to feather, and the time was about 8 o'clock in the evening. Worried about disturbing the feathering of the dragonfly, he quietly set up the machine, turned on the flashlight he had brought in advance, quietly observed and waited, and waited until 1:30 a.m. At that time, I wondered if this little guy had failed to feather, it was said that such a long time should have been feathered, the riverside in summer was very cool, the wind was very strong, and I was cold in a T-shirt, so I wanted to go back to sleep.
But back to the accommodation can not sleep, so at 3:30 a.m. back to the same place, the dragonfly has been feathered, covered with dew, is trying to eliminate the last drop of body fluids, about to take off... So I hurriedly took out the camera and hurriedly photographed it "immediately" looking like it was "setting sail immediately".
▲Yang erwei boat moth larvae. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
▲Ribbon butterfly male. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
▲ Endless life. Photo: By Visual China 500px photographer Ru Feng
Every tiny life is a beautiful masterpiece of nature's painting.
When the microscopic lens continues to touch the hidden "tiny" treasures, we will also go to nature through photography, understand nature, better express nature, and feel the magic of nature and the gift of life with our own eyes.