Alien Head 👽 #07

Polistes humilis, known as the common paper wasp, is a species of wasp in the Vespidae. Wasp head looks like an "Alien head" to me. Capturing an extreme closeup shot of wasp was a challenge to me, if it bites its very painfull. It came ro my garden and made its shelter. They get their name from the papery-nest they built for themselves. I was using reverse lens macro technique to capture this Macro photograph. Macro photography is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size. This image was captured on Nikon D3300, 18-55mm kitlens reverse mounted, flash + diffuser, focused ma...View all