Photography offers an escape unlike any other. It allows us to capture moments, create moments, and interpret the worlds we see through a lens. We document, we study, we create art, and for me, this was lifesaving.

In my early twenties, I suffered a huge mental breakdown. It was unexpected, out of control, and hard. I attempted to take my own life. 

I tried the anti depressant tablets but they didn’t really work for me, I needed something that would occupy my thoughts, something that would take up my time and stop me from over thinking. That’s when I picked up a camera.

When I’m looking through the lens, I enter a hidden world not many see, a world of macroscopic wonder, the world of the arthropods. I’m no longer in our world, a world full of social media comparisons, fake news, war, worry, and stress. That doesn’t exist here. This world is so much more different than ours, it’s a world full of colour, romance, detail, life and wonder, bound by no rules, only mother nature.  

Hidden-World

'Pop' You hear the sound as it hops away, this is a froghopper! Amazing creatures that literally yeet themselves into the void if you get too close. Do you ever see that foam on plant stems? That's the nymph stage of this creature. It literally creates a fortress of foam by blowing bubbles out of it's butt! For that reason alone I have included it in my collection.  

Hidden World #27

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