My most preferred description for my current way of living is that its somewhat similar to a four year old. a huge proportion of things encountered are never seen before and those that appear somewhat familiar, arent still for which I possess much knowledge. a state where everyday you seem to know more than you did yesterday and yet in absolute terms or compared to those around you, you seem to be not knowing anything at all. All that apart, most striking difference that this state has from a grown-up like state is, information and its relevance/context are not yet required to be tightly coupled before they are paid attention by brain.
In grown up state, where most of the things encountered are well understood and its important to be in control of the things, I think it makes more sense that information is classified as relevant/irrelevant important/non important based on why/how etc and we automatically focus only on what is found relevant/important. Conversely, if we do find something important and if we don't understand it, its not a nice feeling and usually we readily supply more resources to try and understand. In this child like state however, one neither has enough knowledge nor can afford to mark new information coming in way as important or otherwise. its more like keep collecting pieces of jigsaw puzzles and independently let it get solved. result is that when new information is encountered, there is both less excitement (oh, such an important piece of information) and less neglect (I don't care for that information) but a lot more wonder - which I guess helps remembering new information till its importance or otherwise is decided in direct or indirect way.
In grown up state, where most of the things encountered are well understood and its important to be in control of the things, I think it makes more sense that information is classified as relevant/irrelevant important/non important based on why/how etc and we automatically focus only on what is found relevant/important. Conversely, if we do find something important and if we don't understand it, its not a nice feeling and usually we readily supply more resources to try and understand. In this child like state however, one neither has enough knowledge nor can afford to mark new information coming in way as important or otherwise. its more like keep collecting pieces of jigsaw puzzles and independently let it get solved. result is that when new information is encountered, there is both less excitement (oh, such an important piece of information) and less neglect (I don't care for that information) but a lot more wonder - which I guess helps remembering new information till its importance or otherwise is decided in direct or indirect way.
I often photograph various different looking insects I find with sense of wonder. Few photographs below.
It wasn't very unfriendly so not very sure why I couldn't manage a better shot. probably it was very small and refused to come on top of the grass.
Found in good numbers. I really like to watch this insect feeding on nectar and pollen of macro sized flowers.
One of those shots I am happy with myself that I could take given the size and movement of this insect. it was very very tiny and was feeding on this plant. Some kind of Ant?
Below ones look similar types.
This last insect was hanging in strong sunshine and appeared either like exoskeleton or dead insect to unaided eyes. I took the shot anyways and it came out quite nice after adjusting for overexposure. (I think it was one of the rare cases where both camera and human eye failed to meter / deal with dynamic range of the scene correctly. i.e. camera often fails but eye making same mistake with similar magnitude is interesting.)
Rather poor shots but even being able to get this spider in frame feels great. It is without any doubt the smallest insect I have watched and photographed if I may say so. Its highly energetic red spider and getting it in frame even with its outline visible was difficult.
P.S. as per comments below, this is a mite and not spider.
Below insect is probably a moth?
This I think is a weevil.
yet another tiny - probably 2-3mm in length, that I have seen few times feeding inside the flowers. I really like its decorative design.
and finally, some beautifully arranged eggs of unknown insect.
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