All photos Tyler Roney
To wind down from the tear gas and COVID plague in Bangkok, I retire to my balcony with a large camera and neat whisky to stare at plants just in case a 6-millimeter spider comes back. Despite how that sounds, this is a perfectly sane thing to do.
The mega-metropolis Bangkok doomscape, it turns out, has a bunch of little freaks just crawling across helter skelter across it, like they own the place. And someone needs to document that in case it gets out of hand. This is called macro photography.
Sure, the planet is choking, and China has lost its mind, and Myanmar is burning, and there’s the Taliban again and a Bangkok stormtrooper might truncheon you in the face. But you have this grasshopper. And that’s pretty neat.
I took up wildlife photography on safari in Nepal and then in East Africa for the Great Migration. A safari, in technical terms, is…
