Macro Iloilo

25/05/2026

Nature is the greatest artist, and every petal is a masterpiece.
The deeper you look, the more you see🌿🍃🌻🌼

📸 Shasha Albor
📸 Sharel Albor Photography

22/05/2026

A single bead of morning dew wandered through an ocean of green, carrying the whole dawn inside its heart. Around it, the leaves glowed like whispered emeralds, soft and endless as if the world had forgotten every other hue. The morning, then, cloaked in evergreen wonder bent itself and learned to bloom around something so small.

Yvonne Iran May Degala

📸 Sharel Albor Photography
📸Shasha Albor

08/05/2026

Found a tiny crimson caravan today! 🐜✨ These aphids might be small, but their color is impossible to miss. Every stem in the garden holds a different story if you look close enough.

"Garden friend or garden foe? Either way, you can't deny those colors are stunning!

What’s your favorite color to find in the wild?"

📸 Sharel Albor Photography
📸Shasha Albor

08/05/2026

Life is all about perspective. 🌿 Sometimes you just have to pause at the edge, take a look around, and appreciate the tiny worlds thriving right under our noses. This little explorer was caught venturing out on a limb today.

A close-up look at a Land Snail (Family Ariophantidae). Notice the thin, amber shell and those delicate eye stalks. These tiny gastropods play a huge role in our ecosystem, helping with decomposition and nutrient cycling in the wild.

What's the smallest thing you've spotted in nature lately?

📸Sharel Albor Photography
📸Shasha Albor

27/04/2026

This elegant, spindle-shaped egg belongs to a butterfly in the Pieridae family, most likely a Pieris rapae, commonly known as the Cabbage White or Small White butterfly.

The Cabbage White butterfly egg is a tiny engineering marvel, and its development moves surprisingly fast once it's laid.

Approximate Size
• Height: Roughly 1.0 mm to 1.5 mm (about the thickness of a credit card).
• Width: Roughly 0.5 mm.
• Because they are so vertical and narrow, they often look like tiny, upright grains of rice to the naked eye. In this macro photo, the magnification makes it look like a massive monument, which is the magic of the Laowa Super Macro Lens.

The egg will typically hatch in 4 to 8 days, though this depends heavily on the temperature.

📸 Sharel Albor Photography
📸 Shasha Albor

Nikon D810
Laowa Super Macro Lens 5x f2.8

26/04/2026

“ The Standoff “

Sometimes, the most intense dramas happen on the smallest stages. Caught these two Black and Yellow Mud Daubers (Sceliphron) in a rare "mirror image" moment. For solitary wasps, a meeting like this is a high-stakes conversation.

Who do you think backed down first?

📸 Shasha Albor
Nikon D810
AFS-Micro-Nikkor 105mm f2.8G IF-ED

25/04/2026

Macro Iloilo Visits Bulabog Putian National Park

Our team of professional photographers from across Iloilo recently headed into the wild! Under the leadership of Barotac Nuevo’s own macro photographer, Sharel “Shasha” Albor, the team set out to enjoy the beauty of Bulabog Putian. Their goal? To trek through the wilderness and capture stunning shots of endemic species and the many unique, unnamed critters that call this park home.

Photos contributed by :

Shasha Albor
Angelo Clement Yap
Vernz Jagunap
Steve Francis Quaitchon
JO IE
Eman Ariola
Ruperto Quitag
Renz Dicen
Schunt Lester

BPNP Tour Guide
Ningning

Note: Please contact us if name identification of the photos posted is not correct. We are more welcome to correct the names for educational purposes. Thank you❤️

15/02/2026

Roaming around the Iloilo Garden of Love

20/01/2026

Spotted Tortoise Beetle
Leica M10 / R-Adapter M
Nikon D7500/ Laowa Super Macro 5x f2.8

16/11/2025