Great work, as usual, Mark!
I do not find these insect particularly ugly or threatening.
In many (most?) cases those impressions both concepts are
experience-based.
Naturally, a human brain tends to like what we are used to, and dislike
(or even get threatened by) what is very disparate from ourselves: we fear
unknown.
I think it is very similar to the roots of xenophobia (and a few other
phobias). I also think a similar mechanism is responsible (at least in
part) for face recognition problems across races.
Mark, I see why you said this insect looks like a puppy.
It does a little bit.
By the way, this is actually a great example of that we tend to relate
new objects to something that we are familiar with.
Very similarly, we find human-like features in cars (headlights -> eyes,
grill -> face), and classify some grill features as friendly or
aggressive.
Igor
PS. I find it interesting that a few months ago I was shooting a wasp,
thinking it was an ant queen. :-)
You might remember it: http://42graphy.org/misc/_IR27045.jpg
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Mark C wrote:
Since posting this I've learned that it is actually an ant queen, and not a
wasp, not that it makes much difference to the viewer. As nasty as ti looks,
the whole frame is covering less than 3mm of space, so the ant is very tiny
indeed.
On 12/3/2015 12:19 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Certainly a creature one wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley :-).
On 12/3/2015 1:48, Mark C wrote:
Looks a little like a puppy to me:
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/small-wasp-1
or on flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcassino/23370180022/
8x lifesized. Pentax K01 and K 24 f3.5, lots of extension and flash.
Comments welcome!
Mark
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