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Another picture for the contest.
Graphosoma lineatum on Hydrangea leaves.
I tried to work with the repetition of leaves shape in the background.
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These flowers are ridiculously tiny --- how itsy-bitsy does that make these bugs?? :)
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The photographs in my set, "Weed Flower Micros," may appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers – they are not!
These are micro (macro) photos of tiny little flowers which bloom on ordinary weeds found in my lawn.
How tiny? The largest weed flower in the set is only, when measured across its widest part from petal tip to petal tip, 3/4" in diameter (19mm)!
Some of these miniscule flowers are so small that the entire blossom you are looking at is 1/4" in diameter (6mm)…or smaller! Again, that’s measuring from petal tip to petal tip across the widest part of the bloom!
The smallest part of a weed flower that I have managed to successfully shoot and achieve good detail in is a photo I made of a bud that measured LESS than 1/32" in diameter (0.7mm) across its widest part!
For size references I have included a photo of certain flowers and buds next to the head of an ordinary paper match, which dwarfs the blooms and buds.
It’s delightful to discover the beauty, complexity, and variety in something so small that it’s easily ignored, taken for granted, dismissed as a pest, or just downright difficult to see with the naked eye.
And it’s an even greater delight to realize that this incredible beauty has been growing wild in my lawn, year after year, right under my un-seeing eyes as I’ve repeatedly mown them down with my lawn mower, never realizing the unseen beauty that I was trampling under my feet.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I do. I have a lot of fun making them for us to look at!
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See more of these incredible, tiny jewels in my NEW SET, "Weed Flower Micros – II:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157627844487270/
And peruse 400 photos in my original set, "Weed Flower Micros:"
Common Gumtree Shield Bug nymph (Poecilometis sp.) shedding it's former skin. The red will soon darken to the same black as the old skin
April 2, 2008 -- The hairy butt of a very tiny bug. Taken with a Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens. Cropped.
This is Billy Bob Bug. He is CREEPY!!! If one of you smarties knows what this is, PLEASE tell me, cause it's really weird and quite frankly I just don't want it....It has one big set of eyes and a bunch of smaller dots that look like eyes...ugh...
Travel bug released on Easter Sunday from Folsom Prison (for good behavior, ha, ha!) Travel bugs are small items that move from cache to cache in the Geocaching (.com) game.
Bug, a species of Largidae. East Kunderang, Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, NSW, Australia, September 2015.
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