Bitten by the macro bug


Cool collection: When talking about his hobby, Kurt Guek Hock Ping is quick to whip out his smartphone which contains hundreds of images of bugs and critters, such as this colourful caterpillar. – AHMAD IZZRAFIQ/The Star

A macro photographer gets lucky when his bug specimen makes it to the Top 10 New Species 2013.

IT was a day out in the forest of Ulu Yam, Selangor, for macro photographer Kurt Guek Hock Ping when his acute vision spotted something flying across. A gut feeling made him follow the creature until it alighted upon a leaf.

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