MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY with Joseph Saunders
2/19/202627 min
Lights! Cameras! Arachnids! And lizards and bees and beetles. Macro photography is like magic: curved glass gives an entirely new take on the world, from dust on a cricket’s brow to a curious mantid stare to the elegant symmetry of spider whiskers. Joseph Saunders is an Oklahoma-based wildlife photographer whose larger-than-life photos of bugs and reptiles will make you realize just how little we appreciate the creatures on our window sills and skittering up our porches.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
We know that weeknights are not for the weak.
Joseph Saunders· Guest0:02
[dog barking] Mom.
Speaker 10:03
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Alie Ward· Host0:44
Oh, hey. It's that older guy at the beach watching the sunset, who claps when it's done. Ally Ward. Oh, hello. You're at Smologies. You're using your ears to listen about eyes, and cameras, and bugs, and all kinds of cool stuff. I love this episode. It's so inspiring. It will make you look at the world completely differently, and maybe go out and take pictures of it, so enjoy. Up top, I wanted to let you know, this guest has a website now, paraherpetologica.com. The link is in the show notes, so if you wanna be looking at any of his photography while we talk, you can go to that, or to his Instagram, which is in the show notes. So let's keep these good vibes rolling with aperiology. And it just did not have a specific ology. I looked