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I am an exclusive photographer with istockphoto and produce a wide variety of images. Recently I have been experimenting with high magnification photography of insects, plants and anything else I find that looks interesting up close.

I am a first year undergraduate studying Biology at the University of Oxford. I have a particular interset in entomology and enjoy exploring the huge diversity of insect species in the UK.

I aim to use this blog to share some of the photos I have been taking which I find particularly interesting, I try to do a little bit of research on the subjects of my photos but am far from an expert. if I have made any big errors or misidentified something, please leave a comment or send me an email to correct me .

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Saturday 28 August 2010

Blood sucking cat flea

Cat fleas are not the prettiest of insect, but they are a nice red colour when full of blood!

I caught this flea from my cat Alfie, I then allowed it to suck my blood for 5 minutes before killing it and taking 120 photos which were then stacked to produce the image as seen below. The flea had just about doubled in size by the time it had finished its blood meal.

This image is a stack of 100 frames, taken using a Nikon M plan 10/0.25 objective on bellows.

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