Anand Varma is a photographer who works for national geographic. He started as a freelance photographer in Berkeley California. He was inspired by Charles Darwin. He films the important parts in a life cycle like the bee’s life cycle the caterpillar life cycle and more and cut down in a time lapse. Through the process he realized this was nature and there was no telling how it’s going to turn out, but it also had his benefits because in controlled environments, such as bee farms, you cannot see wildlife and parasites that consist in the bee’s life therefore not actual form of an insect's life.
Anand Varma, started photography when he was in high school. He uses different films, tools and strategies and usually uses time lapse. He used a lot of high-contrast lighting and a all-around dark palette. He had to use lots of this because usually people think that parasites are gross, undeserving mold and creatures. It would do a quick turn off, so he had to put a lot of thinking into his work. Sometimes he needed to recreate insect's life cycle with clips of different life cycles. He uses a style most filmmakers don't like to use. He takes this fact and turns it into an advantage. The style that Anand uses is especially different style than David L., Who uses slideshows and slow moving images, where Anand uses time-lapse and such. Anand uses the same techniques as animation, but pictures instead of drawings
Anand is experimenting with bees and doing photography with bees and learns a lot more about bees. takes photos of science to teach people about science and how cool is science and he communicates by pictures! He discovered new views of different types of insects, that inspired him take more photos.
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And do you know that taking pictures is that easy you need to make sure it’s the correct picture. He was making sure it is interesting for the audience and do you know that people think that the parasites are gross but to Anand they are not that disgusting.
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One of his good friends Alice Rosenthal has a beehive and it helped him a lot. She straggled in winter. This was a win-win for them because they could get a close- up film