© David Lain / Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020. There was also a ‘Snails and Slugs’ category, which was won by David Lain, whose classic portrait of a garden snail, below, made for a simple and very effective image framed against a black, ceramic tile. Next up, here’s Chris Ruijter’s image ‘Purple Haze’, which was placed third in the ‘Flies, Bees, Wasps and Dragonflies’ category, shot at sunrise and featuring a banded demoiselle. © Chris Ruijter / Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020. © Sara Jazbar / Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020. The creative shot, below, features a black-veined white butterfly. Another of our favourite images was from Sara Jazbar who claimed third place in the ‘Butterflies and Moths’’ category with her image ‘Aporia in infrared’. Winner of the Arachnids category was Lung-Tsai Wang, whose image ‘Microspur 1’ features a Lynx Spider with its young, taken in the mountains of Taiwan.
© Lung-Tsai Wang / / Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020. © Mofeed Abu Shalwa / Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020. Mofeed was also shortlisted in the ‘Beetles’ category with his photo of a longhorned beetles, below, as well as being placed in the ‘Arachnids’ category. So, it’s onto a selection of the winners! The overall Luminar Bug Photographer of the Year 2020 award was given to Mofeed Abu Shalwa, a Saudi Arabian photographer who apparently “started photographing invertebrates as a way of overcoming his childhood phobia of insects!” Mofeed’s entries were shortlisted in several categories, including ‘Extreme Close-Up’, which featured the striking photo of a red palm weevil, above.
Whatever lens you have – or are thinking of buying – you’re sure to find plenty of inspiration in this year’s top photos. But many are clearly shot on more regular macro glass like Nikon’s AF-S DX Micro 85mm f/3.5G ED or Sigma’s 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro OS HSM. Many of the entries clearly use lenses and optics that create greater-than-life-size images of tiny critters, for instance Canon’s legendary MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro, or the amazing Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X, available for Canon, Nikon or Sony mounts.
According to the organisers, “the awards have raised valuable funds for the conservation efforts of Buglife,” so a big well done to them for that. The annual awards are designed to celebrate photography of invertebrates and raise awareness of the plight of so many species that are in decline or threatened with extinction. © Heath McDonald / Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020.
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And the judging panel including Buglife President, Germaine Greer, TV presenter and naturalist Nick Baker, and ground-breaking macro photographer, Levon Biss, has picked some great images. The 2020 awards, in association with Europe’s leading invertebrate charity, Buglife, has yielded some absolutely cracking shots, divided into 11 categories and originally plucked from over 5,000 submissions worldwide. Īs if you needed any convincing of the photographic potential of insects and other invertebrates, check out the results of the most recent Luminar Bug Photography Awards. Of course you can shoot almost anything with a macro, but one of the most enduring and compelling subjects is always wildlife – and in the main, ‘bugs.’ © Sara Jazbar / Luminar Bug Photography Awards 2020. With so many of us turning our photography to home projects, it’s no wonder macro lenses – as well as close up filters and reversing rings – have been so popular. If there’s just one thing we’ve learned in this past year, it’s how much use you can get out of a macro lens.
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