Igor Siwanowicz: Animals Up Close
The smiling lizards got my attention, and I stayed for the spiders. A close up look at some of our small neighbors.
More about the photographer at Why Evolution is True:
Igor Siwanowicz is a Polish-born biologist who works as a technical assistant in behavioral genetics at the Max Planck institute of Neurobiology in Munich. He’s also a world class nature photographer, specializing in macro photography of animals. I especially love his mantises. Here are some of his images (click to enlarge); you can see many more at the Blepharopsis website—the word is a genus of mantids—or in his book Animals Up Close (a nice Xmas gift for a budding biologist).