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A spot of sunlight shows through the translucent wings of a Tree Nymph butterfly (Idea leuconoe).
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When this weeks theme was proposed I set out with the intention of taking an image of backlit leaves. Though when walking through the woods during the last hour of sunlight it struck me that the forest itself is translucent. It allows some light to pass through down to the forest floor but not all light. Some is obscured by dense canopy above. So here is an image of a translucent fern lit by the sun through a translucent forest.
Apologies to anyone who isn't fond of bugs..
The trap is shaped like a little red apple - approx. 2.25" diameter - and seems fairly effective. I used the supplied liquid in one but followed a hunch based on the smell (later backed up by a little online searching) and put apple cider vinegar - with a few drops of dish detergent to break the surface tension - in the other. My homemade liquid seems to work just about as well as the commercial one, so I'll just keep using the containers. We have a whole bottle of apple cider vinegar... :)
The liquid that came with the kits says it's enough for 90 days - the instructions say to use half the bottle in each apple, and that's supposed to last for 45 days. BUT...it's evaporating very quickly. I've nearly used up the bottle keeping ONE trap supplied for a week.
An "x-ray" of a tree's leaves in Central Park :)
Um "raio-x" das folhas de uma árvore do Central Park :)
Spectra wears DOTD Lagoona shoes. I adore these, they are up in my top 5 MH shoes. So pretty. Impossible to stand in tho.
Played with my discount flowers and the light box today after watching a youTube video by Harold Davis. If you haven't seen his work you should www.digitalfieldguide.com/faqs/faq-photographing-flowers-.... I need to become more adept at Photoshop so I can learn how to add the layers one at a time instead of just merging to HDR. This is it for today and I am intrigued to do some more work with flowers and the light box. I don't understand how anyone can get bored, there is so much to learn and experiment with every day! It's not perfect but this is how we grow and learn, baby stepping.
Nikon F90X, Ilford Pan 400, developed in Rodinal 1:25 @ 22° for 4m50s, agitated every minute. Scanned on Epson V600.
One of the test shots on my 'new' F90X that I picked up for 30 quid.
This shot shows the translucent nature of Volucella pellucen's ivory-white second tergite, and also the large dark spots on its wings! The translucent ivory-white second tergite rise to the common name for this hoverfly, the Pellucid Fly, as pellucid means translucently clear!
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