When we think of a job that requires hard work, stress on the body, getting dirty, we call it a Blue-Collar job.

When you look at what we go through as macro photographers, it sure is the blue collar of nature photography.

Hard on the back, knees take a beating. we get dirty from head to toe, sounds like blue collar to me.

We’re a tough bunch us macro photographers, and proud of it.

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Looks like this macro lady will be doing some wash when she gets home.

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I keep my Chiropractor in business with the stress on my back.

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These shots are not too tough on the body, but just got to watch out for the ticks and spiders crawling inside your pant legs.

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Sometimes you have to contort your body in funky positions.

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I should call the guy from the “Dirty Jobs” show, and take him into the musky smelling, mosquito infested swamp for a day.

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I wonder if macro photographers get paid as well as the landscape photographers do. The blue-collar workers usually have to work harder for less pay.

But that’s okay we do it because we love it.

It puts us in closer touch with mother earth.