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So here is my final work. I did a series because I feel with my style of work, it works better having photos supporting each other rather than one image on it's own. In each frame I focus on a specific animal. From left to right: snails, ants, wasps and finally woodlice. Now, you may be thinking "why has she not taken photos of the pretty insects, like butterflies?" Well I wanted to take photos of the animals that aren't usually seen as beautiful or cute, but are just seen as pests, whose lives are often abruptly ended by a quick whack of a shoe! The reason I wanted to have these animals as my main subjects is because I wanted to show people that these animals can be interesting and in some cases can be cute. If I can change someone's opinion about one of these animals then that'll be one less person who is killing them. There is more to them than a lot of people think!
Every animal has its own role in the earth's ecosystem. For example, woodlice help with decomposition of dead plants and wasps help with controlling insect populations. Now these may seem like insignificant acts, but they are vital to keeping everything together. If we didn't have wasps then other insect populations would grow and this would then lead to other problems and it's like a chain reaction.
I really enjoyed doing this project as I haven't focused on taking photos of animals in a long time! It's always been plants or things that don't move. So it was quite challenging because I had to find the creatures, which proved more difficult than I first thought. I also don't have much control on their actions so it was a lot of patience on my end! The ants were particularly tricky to take photos of because they move so quick and are so small! I ended up luring them out with honey, which worked amazingly well!
If you want to see the photos on a bigger scale then click on the following link http://www.katherinepowellphotography.com/#!pests/c21nf
I plan to add more photos to this series soon.
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