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Matt is driving ......... Matt is the DJ too...... so we are listening to an eclecttic mix of The Cult and The Specials..... Cake....... Mumford and Sons....... Damien Rice....... and BB King.......... amongst others...... Matt says this track ['Many Miles Travelled' by BB King](http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search?q='Many%20Miles%20Travelled'%20) is my theme song......... :-/ :-)
We r rolling from Fort Lauderdale to Tampa across the everglades and up the Gulf Coast......... the day in Fort Lauderdale was perfect........ the night drive not so much...... pretty grim in fact ..... as its all foggy across the swamps and now along the coastal road...... its gone midnight....... this fog is slowing us down big time......... even the Beast car cannot speed us through all this...........
America sometimes amazes me with all this drastic weather and differing landscape and experience......... snow storms up in Rochester yesterday ....... today sun, sea and sand in Fort Lauderdale........ tonight humidity swamps and thick fog ........ I've been hanging out in the States for nearly a decade but it still amazes me sometimes.
Matt told me today he had been here in the US for 10 years and one day....... I'm not that precise in fact as you know Im pretty vague........ hehehe.......but I have been zapping about over here for more than nine years amazingly....... and incredibly it all still seems new and interesting....... this fog......hundreds of miles of fog...... is a new one on me........ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-)))))
Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
PS.......... We are in Tampa now....... This Beastie above at the gas station was unafraid of the red Beast....... it was even having a go at me............. talking of new and interesting I think this Roach thingy at approx 4 inches long was the biggest bug I have ever seen...... enough to totally creep me out when it rushed towards me......... agggghhhhhhhhh ........... anyway its crazily late again now gotta kip :-/
This bug is the real deal. taken with my little Sony Cyber Shot . It was only cropped and framed
I went out tonight for a few minutes to pick up my son , it was on the outside of the screen
door , luckily it was still there when I got home. A bit outside my comfort zone
I can only imagine what it would look like with my Nikon D5000
Researched this I think its an Orange Caterpillar Parasite Wasp
oooooh, heeby cheeby time
www.oocities.org/brisbane_parawasps/OrangeCaterpillarPara...
There once was a bug. It sat on a messy pink flower in front of some green stuff.
And then something quite extraordinary did not, in any way, occur.
I was trying to take a photo of my daylily when this wee bug dropped in. He said he made the shot better.
Tractor made from a Ford model A.
Photo from North America.
This is a collection of images of Homemade tractors, American Doodlebugs, and Swedeish A and Epa-traktorer.
Many of the images here I have found all over the internet!
If anyone find their own image here and disapprove of me showing it here, just send me a message and I will remove it/them images!
Sharon (@sharritta) at 365Project.org challenge me this week to do a forced perspective shot.
I decided to combine that with a field trip to Victoria's Bug Zoo that I went on with an old friend.
I'm spending this week developing my professional web site (finally!), so I'm going to infill with some of the really groovy bug shots that I got on the weekend with my old friend LP.
This lady tarantula was quite tame. I even held her, which surprised me, as I'm quite terrified of spiders. Our guide put me at ease.
The Bug Zoo doesn't allow tripods, so lighting was definitely a challenge. I lost about 1/3 of my shots to camera shake and insufficient exposure. My macro lens opens up to f/2.8, but there's a lot going inside that lens that reduces its light output, so it's not a particulary fast f/2.8.
My VR macro lens has a 12" minimum focusing distance (close enough for me, thank you), which renders a wonderful 1:1 close up. However, as with any lens when you get this close, your DOF declines exponentially. Even at f/29, there's very little depth of field, and I couldn't get anywhere close to that, as it either forced an exposure too long to hand hold, or reduced my light to nothing when using the on-camera flash. I couldn't push it much past f/8.
Pushing the ISO to between 1600 and 2000 helped to shorten the shutter speed, but introduced a LOT of noise into the shot. Lightroom helped to mitigate that, but the adjustment brush liked to pick up the noise when Auto Masking while selecting each bug, making selection much more tedious.
I think next time I go, I'm going to rent a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. That should give me additional working distance, and provide me a greater depth of field at the same framing. I've shot with it before, and it's a *very* fast lens.
Very freaky viewed large.
Taken handheld with my Nikon D600 for 1/60th of a second at f/9, ISO 1600 with my Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR macro lens, using on-camera flash.
The whole set of high-resolution images from the Bug Zoo is avavilable on my Flickr site:
Photo © Lydia Marcus / www.lydiamarcus.com
Photographed February 8, 2009 near Route 66 in Barstow, CA
A great part of summer is the arrival of the lightning bugs. A found this one in my back yard waiting for twilight to take to the air and use his light to attract a mate or maybe a meal.
There are about 2000 species of Lightning Bugs. There lights are used to attract mates but in some species it is a trap used to fool other species of lightning bugs into thinking they are finding a mate. when they arrive at the source of the light that mimics that of a mate they are attacked and eaten. Its a Jungle out there, LOL even in what seems to us to be a peaceful back yard.
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Probably Green Stink Bug. On iris.
Leonard J. Buck Garden, Far Hills, NJ
Vibroplex Original Deluxe Bug bought new in 1988 at the Dayton Hamvention in Ohio. Took this earlier, trying again!
This time of the year bugs are everywhere and they have a big fan...me 😄 The insect world is amazing! It's so worth to take a closer look.