Macro photographs of bugs' eyes: Thomas Shahan goes eyeball-to-eyeball with insects

Thomas Shahan, a 21-year-old photography student, zooms in on the world of spiders, insects and creepy crawlies, spending hours waiting for a single shot. His images capture the remarkable complexity and beauty of the eyes of an insect in stunning detail

A blue faced meadow hawk

The bug-loving student from Oklahoma, USA, doesn't use any trickery to create his remarkable macro photographs, just a digital camera, a zoom lens and a lot of patience

The young photographer became fascinated by the beauty of insect eyes whilst at college and immediately began going out into the wild to picture them

A black soldier fly

Thomas has snapped a vast number of bugs from jumping spiders to dragonflies

A robber fly

Thomas shoots the insects in their natural environment without interfering with their behaviour

A tiger crane fly

The eyes of a female jumping spider

A female horsefly

A yellow jacket wasp

A striped horsefly

A male robber fly

A robber fly does battle with a dragonfly

A praying mantis

A spider

A blue dasha dragonfly

A damselfly

A house fly

A skipper moth

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