Photographing insects is like browsing garage sales on a Sunday afternoon, except every single day you can come home with stuff that would make the appraisers on Antiques Road show wet their knickers. I originally started photographing live insects back in the late 1970's, using a Nikon film camera. Film and processing costs eventually forced me to abandon my pursuit, however. With the advent of digital cameras capable of images of 1 megapixels or so, I realized here was a way to enjoy my hobby again with each image virtually free. I now take 10,000 + insect photos each season. I love being out in the field, and I enjoy learning about these tiny, beautiful creatures.
There is an incredible amount of beauty in the natural world. I've been surprised and stunned many times after coming home and downloading the camera to find out a spider or fly or damselfly has colors or structures I never imagined existed in nature. It's like looking through a microscope or telescope for the first time; you can see things you would never encounter in everyday life. I hope you enjoy my images. -- -- Bruce Marlin
Our clients include:
McDougal-Littell
National Wildlife Federation / Field Guide to Insects
National Wildlife Federation / Wildlife Magazine
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (California)
Kaufman Field Guide to North American Insects
The Humane Society of the United States
The National Audubon Society
Houghton - Mifflin Co.
The Dole Food Company
Pearson PLC (Pearson Education)
Insectes (magazine) OPIE - Office Pour Les Insectes Et Leur Evironement (France)
Stratford Upon Avon Butterfly Farm (UK)
BBC Wildlife Magazine (UK)
Heller Nature Center, Highland Park IL Park District
Seventeenth Street Studios, Oakland CA
My Tin Can Productions (UK)
Gouvernement du Québec - Ministère des Ressources naturelles, de la Faune et des Parcs
Colourpoint Books (UK)
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (Pittsburgh PA)
Riverbend Nature Works (Wichita Falls, TX)
The Think Tank Group, Inc. (PA)
Academy Studios (Novato, CA)
Diversitas (International) - November 2005 Conference - Oaxaca, Mexico
Stoneleigh Farms, Virginia
Montana State University - Bozeman
Oregon State University Forestry Media Center
University of Florida Featured Creatures
Duval House Publishing
The Oregonian (Newspaper)
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Buffalo Sunday News (NY)
The Great Frame Up - Bartlett IL
The Toronto Star Newspaper
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. News and World Report
Oklahoma Today Magazine
A number of our photographs are featured on the Tree of Life Web Project.
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is
beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it
too?" -- Richard Dawkins
We hope you'll enjoy our site, and find it enlightening and educational. Please let us know if you have suggestions or comments, find errors, or have questions. Email me:Bruce Marlin
 Our logo is derived from a photograph of Sugar Maple leaves by Chris Glass. It is published here under the original Creative Commons 2.0 license.
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