(Attention: Some viewers may find the images disturbing. Proceed at your own risk.)

I was always afraid of insects, any kind of them.
Spiders, beetles, flying insects, and all kind of them that were not butterflies..

That started to change a while ago.

I started taking many images of nature around me. I started noticing all living things on the plants and weeds around me.

I started seeing that there was a whole world that I had no idea about. Unexplored. Unknown.

But how can we respect something that we know so little about?
How can we value something that we only look but not see?
How can we inspire other people to love nature when we know nothing about our ecosystem?

I started thinking some thoughts (!) and shooting some shots too!

I started from the sweetest creatures that you can easily photograph.. They do not move a lot and they are so photogenic :) Ladybirds!

After a short while, it all came just naturally. There were more than lady bugs outside. I learned to be patient, quiet, still and also fearless if I wanted to take a nice shot. I only shoot with my smartphone, so I have to be real close to my subject (meaning just a few centimeters away!)

So imagine me .. trying to come as closer as possible to this spider!

If I would even think about it in the past, I would die of fear. And look at me now!

Take a look also at this little guy!

And of course one of my best works .. the crab spider in action!

If you would like to read more about these spiders check this out

So tell me, do you have a phobia? Are you afraid of something?
Do you embrace your fears? Do you face your fears and try to overcome them?
Do you .. know your fears? Thinking of it, maybe the most important thing is to .. identify our fears. Sometimes we got it all wrong, and we have a wrong conception about what we are afraid of.

Think about it, you may be totally surprised :)

Thank you very much for dropping by!
All Images original by me

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My personal account: https://giphy.com/channel/katyramm

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