Mike MacLean Photoscapes

18/02/2026

🔥 NATURE — UNFILTERED. UNFORGIVING. UNREAL. 🔥

Caught in the wild: a praying mantis mid-hunt, locking onto its prey with surgical precision. No AI. Just raw macro photography revealing a moment most people will never see with their own eyes.

This is the hidden world happening right in your backyard; dramatic, intense, and absolutely mesmerizing. 🐉🐝

If this shot stopped your scroll, you already know why I chase these moments.
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11/02/2026

Ever feel like time is flying… and you’re just trying to keep up?

This was captured in a split second; a reminder that the smallest details don’t wait around forever. Slowing down through macro has been grounding lately, forcing me to notice what I’d normally miss. 🕰️🪰

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📸 Canon | Laowa | Macro

09/02/2026

After a long time away from the camera, it feels good to be back behind the lens.

2024 was fully committed to Hard Enduro, finishing 2nd overall in the NZ Hard Enduro Championships (Bronze class). That season included a broken wrist in Rnd 3, which I continued to race on through the remainder of the series.

2025 was intended to be a year of surgeries and recovery. With procedures delayed, it became an unexpected gap year; away from competition and focused on mental and physical health, while waiting for the reset.

With surgery now completed and a long recovery ahead, I’m shifting focus back to another long-standing passion: photography. This image marks that return; slowing things down, paying attention to detail, and reconnecting with the creative side while healing properly.

More macro and nature work to come as recovery continues.

👉 Link to the Jelly Arms Racing You Tube channel is in the pinned comment.

Thanks to everyone who’s supported the racing, the recovery, and this next chapter.

02/09/2024

Three guesses? You should only need one.

31/08/2023

Blue Super Moon tonight...a few quick images from a few spots around home.

26/02/2023

Lamborghini time!

26/02/2023

BMW Z4 Drift car initiating the drift. Speed and sideways, i was only metres away from this car. Hot sun, burning rubber and the sounds of screaming engines made for a great day out.

https://mandmphotoscapes.picfair.com/pics/016927682-

28/01/2023

Warning - Bridge out ahead!

During the storm of Jan 23 in Auckland City, Mill Flat Road in just north of Riverhead had a bridge swept away in the floods.

30/10/2022

30/10/2022

Faces of concentration!