The Mosquito

Usually I wait a few weeks before selecting my best images from a photographic shoot. I know some of my photographer friends select and work their images daily. But I prefer to let them sit awhile. I think I’m more objective and ruthless at editing after a few weeks have past. When I was going through images from our trip east this summer I came across a sequence of images I took using a Canon 5D with a 180 macro on a tripod. A mosquito was on my hand and I shot it while it filled with my blood. I remembered shooting as it pulled out but I didn’t remember shooting after it had lifted off. Here is the entire sequence put together as an animated gif in Photoshop.