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Well it is certainly that time of the year, with the leaves falling so quickly, as well as the temperatures falling and increased precipitation, there has been an explosion of Dicyrtomina species, virtually every leaf I picked up had a few of these on the underside. This is a male Dicyrtomina saundersi, the cross markings on the posterior and the colour change in the antennae help ID this species :o)
This is a 16 image handheld focus stack at F/5.6 using my MP-E at x5 magnification. These guys are great stacking subjects, it may take a while, but they will often stop dead in their tracks, also try a stack as quickly as you can after turning over a leaf. One thing that helps is getting the flash power down as low as possible, this often means increasing the ISO, however, I rarely go above 400, reducing the shutter speed to 1/125 helps and using a wide aperture also helps (A wider aperture will give sharper details and will also require more shots in the stack).
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Well I spent the afternoon searching for Collembola in local woodland, I wasn't going to do a bug upload today, but I really liked this little one. Now I'm sure this is a juvenile Allacma fusca, this one was about 1mm long at a guess, they do get a lot bigger than this. This shows a definite pink colouration and it will eventually become brown in colour.
For this I was experimenting with combinations of tubes and teleconverters, this I think was just 36mm of extension tubes on a 1.4x teleconverter and an F/5.6 aperture. I was also messing about with backdrops as well, this was a light grey card, thought it gave it a nice daytime feel :o)
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Thanks to Bugman below, yes it is indeed an Egyptian Goose.
According to Wikipedia - This close relative of the Shelduck was officially declared a pest in the UK in 2009. It is a largely terrestrial species, which will also perch readily on trees and buildings. It swims well, and in flight looks heavy, more like a goose than a duck, hence the English name.
According to me - there are several that live on the River Thames at Hampton but I have never seen one in a tree!