A photographer snapped stunning macro shots of insects in a Glasgow park - which looked like a jungle.
David Hamilton, 42, began visiting Ruchill Park, Glasgow, during lockdown and tried out macro photography for the first time.
He has snapped around 1,000 different species of insects and said some of them looked so exotic he would have expected to find them in Borneo.
Pictured: David Hamilton captures the stunning photographs
David, who works as a business analyst, said: “The photographs look like something you would see in a jungle or something like that.
"It's amazing what you can find.
"A lot of people say 'I used to be scared of these and now I just can't stop looking at them'.
“Finding something new to photograph every day, something that is under your feet all the time and you never see.
"Once you see them in that close-up detail, it opens up a whole new world.
"I’ve never really tried anything like this previously.
“I used to take landscape photography and during lockdown when you could only get out for an hour at a time, I started to dabble with macro photography.
“I converted some of my camera equipment and took it out to Ruchill Park, which is two minutes from me.
“I got really hooked and upgraded to a proper macro lens and it grew arms and legs from there.”
One recent photograph showed a pollen-covered honeybee perched on top of a flower.
Another showed a jumping spider feasting on some unlucky prey, which David said was a "pain to get" because the critter would not stop moving.
Among his rarer finds are a black and orange fungus beetle in Mugdock Park, Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, and a chalcid wasp, whose metallic green coat is a firm favourite of David's social media following.
He added: “People are amazed by the variety that you get here.
“They cannot believe the stuff you get here and I was the exact same.
“I have found insects that, if I had seen a picture of, I would have said that was in Borneo or the Australian Outback.”
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