Macro Photography By Thomas Shahan

Shahan is a connoisseur of cameras, and his captions note what type of equipment, including vintage lenses and macro extension tubes, he used for each shot. He leaves none of the settings to automation.
“I trust my own judgment more than the camera’s,” he says.
Thanks to Flickr and other Internet outlets, Shahan’s photos already have caught the eyes of people around the world—one topped 50,000 views in twenty-four hours. His work has been published on the Huffington Post and in magazines like Discover, Popular Science, and Popular Photography. In 2009, he even appeared with Al Roker on the Today show.
As he and Roker talked, Shahan held a plastic container. Inside was a specimen of Phidippus pius, an Oklahoma treasure with big dark eyes that photograph green and bright.