Ladybird Hayri Kodal
Canon EOS 550D, 57mm with extension tube, 1/60sec, ISO 800
WE PROBABLY all have, somewhere on our hard drives, pictures of a ladybird walking across someone’s hand – usually a child’s. However, this image is, I think, an exceptional example. It is still ‘ladybird walks over thumb’ as so many of these shots are, but it is the combination of soft lighting, the catchlight on the wings, the mercifully moderate colour saturation and, above all, the sweeping curve of the finger in the background that make this shot stand out from the rest of the world’s. I’ve simplified the image to monochrome so we can all see just how that curve works, how the dome of the ladybird is echoed in the dome of the end of…