Guest Author â—¦
I am passionate about our natural world and our environment. I am passionate about looking beyond the consensus human perspective and seeing that there are countless other perspectives, equally as beautiful and equally as valuable. I am passionate about beauty … about bio-diversity … about photography!

One of the greatest joys of macro photography has been taking photos of bugs. To see their perfection down to the tiniest detail, to interact with their extraordinary intelligence and sentience is always awing and always a privilege. I can see beauty in a small bug on the lid of the garbage bin. It knows I am there and we engage in a ‘conversation’ of sorts. It is also so very clear that it does not wish to be harmed.

But I am not just a macro photographer … the world is a fascinating place … I see birds and clouds and sky and flowers and animals … I feel a thrill at seeing a bandicoot or a koala … and grab for my camera …

Check out my website… www.mariannebrougphotography.com
Marianne Broug Insects of Belair National Park include chapters of work in progress and downloadable PDFs.
See Marianne Broug’s Stop killing the bugs posters (available from her website)…

Following selection of blog and pages as contributor/author in Ausemade by Marianne Broug (you can also do a search using “marianne broug” for an comprehensive list):
- Blogging Shield Bugs and Stink Bugs
- Ask 10 entomologists for an identification…
- Stop killing the bugs…
- Such beauty… such perfection
- Cheering on our Golden Wattle…
- struck by lightning
- Leafhoppers of Belair…
- When we’ve finished …
- THE EYES OF FLIES!
- Landscape of a Leaf
- Precious Jewels…

- Camponotus consobrinus — Banded Sugar Ant
- Castiarina crenata — Jewel Beetle
- Castiarina xanthopilosa — Jewel Beetle
- Chelaner kiliani — Mono Ant
- Delena cancerides — Social Huntsman
- Ellipsidion — Bush Cockroach
- Ellipsidion australe — Austral Ellipsidion
- Harmonia conformis — Large Spotted Ladybird
- Hoshihananomia leucosticte — Pintail Beetle
- Isopedella leai — Cinnamon Huntsman
- Mordella australis — Pintail Beetle
- Mordellidae (Pintail Beetles)
- Myrmecia pilosula — Jack Jumper Ant
- Physiphora alceae — Picture-winged Fly
- Rhytidoponera metallica — Green-head Ant
- Salona panorpaepennis — Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
- The Eyes of Flies — Diptera
- White-spotted Pintail Beetle (Hoshihananomia leucosticta)
- Zygometis xanthogaster — Milky Flower Spider



Guest AuthorsAndrew Turner Cassidy Taylor Christoph von Beeren Christopher Peacock Da Qua David Rennie Danny Thomas Deb Taylor Dianne Bickers Dorothy L Gary Taylor Hongming Kan Iskander Kaliananda Jean and Fred Hort JeLa D Ken Walker Koh Lin Marc Newman Marianne Broug Mark Hanlon Michael Doe Michael Jefferies Norm Farmer Phil Warburton Stefan Jones Terry Dunham Toni Ryland Tony Eales