Bite-size moments
Many photographers suffer for their art but how many have suffered as painfully as Gil Wizen? For the award-winning macro photographer and entomologist, getting stung by wasps and bitten by mosquitoes is all part of the job. When working in the field (the tropical jungles of Ecuador in Gil’s case), his days are rarely pain-free. But Gil is the last to complain – most of the stings and bites are the result of accidents: ‘It’s just me being stupid, it’s not their fault.’
The most common scenario, he says, is ‘me being focused on one thing and then accidentally putting my hands on a surface where another animal is resting, usually a spider or a wasp, and then you get bitten.’ Or he might be focusing closely on an insect or arachnid
