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Ever find the macro shots from your point and shoot a little disappointing? well if you have an old SLR camera, try taking the lens off, inverting it and shooting through the lens. Make sure the point & shoot is in macro mode and you get some cool macro shots. This was taken with my wee Fuji through the 50mm lens taken from my Grandfathers Pentax ME Super.
a fanciful fungal bouquet found in the forest today.
Even though I just got a very cool macro DSLR lens (image stabilized 100mm), I find that the petite form factor of the pocket cams allows for more flexibility, as with this shot with the camera in a dug-out hole.
So i got this new lens for my camera...it is a semi fisheye. i have since realized i should have gotten a lower number like a .22 because the fisheye effect isn't as obvious on a .35 i am debating on if i should send it back... It does have this cool macro lens which i was playing with the other day. I still dont know what I am doing but i rather liked these mysterious shots i took of a pin cushion...Does anyone know anything about these lenses?
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So i got this new lens for my camera...it is a semi fisheye. i have since realized i should have gotten a lower number like a .22 because the fisheye effect isn't as obvious on a .35 i am debating on if i should send it back... It does have this cool macro lens which i was playing with the other day. I still dont know what I am doing but i rather liked these mysterious shots i took of a pin cushion...Does anyone know anything about these lenses?
This is my last creepy ornament one for the day, I promise (I am keeping my fingers crossed, just to keep my options open).
They aren't really this creepy in real life; Not that they are alive.
I like the way they remind me of nightmares I had as a child. I am just jesting for fun, it was just a cool macro shot. I do like macro shots, as they look arty even without doing any hard work. I am all for not doing hard work.
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Looking like tasty jellies, jewel caterpillars are larval Dalcerid moths. These self-sacrificing pacifists are reported to be non-poisonous and non-stinging.
It appears that their brightly colored glutinous bobbles detach easily when touched, perhaps creating self-sacrificial decoys to confuse hungry birds or insects.
In the face of aggression, retribution is not necessary. Just cover yourself in goo and passively resist like a jewel caterpillar.
Daceton armigerum
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The fastest predatory motion of any animal on earth is owned by trap-jaw ants. Like the one pictured here, trap-jaw ants hunt with their large jaws held open at 180 degrees. When the sensory hairs that are visible in this photo make contact with prey, the jaws spring closed. This impressive springing action occurs at over 200 kilometers per hour, closing in about 2.5 milliseconds, with a peak force of 300 times the body weight of the ant.
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Planthopper nymphs like this Australian Nogodonid planthopper are wild party animals. Walking like six-legged festivals, young planthoppers in the family Nogodinae grow fireworks out of their rear ends. They secrete a waxy substance that refracts light into its component colors, creating a spray of multicolored streamers. The fireworks streamers distract predators, helping these nymphs survive until maturity.
Elegant White-moustached Simaethula
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I took this photo of a Tropical Dasher Dragonfly (Micrathyria sp.) just for the joy of capturing the sunlight. The sun doesn’t come out that often in the Amazon and I had spent the best part of a week chasing an uncooperative purple dragonfly, and having no success. Then the sun came out, and so did this photogenic Tropical Dasher. Dragonflies bask in the sun because their muscles must be warm for them to fly well. The warmer they are, the faster they can fly, and the easier it is for them to avoid predators and catch prey. They extend their wings like solar panels and soak up the radiation from a prominent sunny vantage point. Then these sun-worshipers take to the sky as the fastest insects in the world.
Asilidae
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This is a robber fly. But I think of it more as a killer fly, or a scary nightmare fly. Robber flies have a strong reinforced proboscis, they impale their prey. They eat… pretty much anything. Wasps, bees, grasshoppers, dragonflies, beetles, butterflies, moths, bees, ants, damselflies and some spiders. Their moustache (mystax) of spiny hairs on their upper lip is designed as a protection against the pitiful struggles of their prey. Nice. Moustaches have always made me feel a little uncomfortable.
Freaking cool macro opportunity at Courthouse Falls in the North Carolina Mountains. How gorgeous is he? :)
Wish I had an SLR with a cool macro lens! This is the closest I could get to this subject. When viewed large, especially in the original one (3648 X 2736), the tiny hairs appear as clusters of tubes, much like microscopic shots of hairy protozoans or that of a reef creature.
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So damn sharp! Although there are those pink edges, i still like it :) (forgot to adjust it)
Also cropped so much from it >.<
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This beautiful creature is the world’s largest toad. Native to Central America and the northern range of South America, it is also an ancient species. This toad has taken countless millennia to slowly evolve an amazing lifestyle. It exudes poison from poison glands, its tadpoles are toxic when eaten, its poisonous skin is powerfully psychedelic and hallucinogenic, and it is a prolific reproducer. It was a delight to photograph this marvel of nature in its rightful place on the South American side of the Pacific Ocean. Because on the Australian side of the Pacific, the cane toad, Rhinella marinae, is a killing machine of disastrous proportions.
Only humanity could find a way to turn one of nature’s marvels into a pest. Hopefully humanity can also find a way to repair the damage it has caused, rightfully restoring the reputation of this beautiful toad.
I was out taking pictures of my daffodils and saw some rose buds. When I looked closer I noticed that they are already being attacked. It made for a cool macro though.
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DX 85mm Micro
At Thanksgiving Point in Utah to shoot some cool macro pictures with some of the great customers from Pictureline.
Made in Aperture Priority mode with Auto ISO set to ensure that the shutter speed stay set to at least 1/1,000.
The new AF system ROCKS!! AF-C at AF 25-point dynamic kept this guy pretty in focus!
My second last day at Killbear this year was wet and cold. The rain held off at first and I planned to take the canoe out on the lake before the storm hit but as I got to the water, I could see it in the distance. I watched the sheet of rain pass over the calm water and just before it got to the shoreline, I rushed back to my campsite. We had a big tarp set up so that we could still sit outside but avoid getting soaked. My brother found a really cool moth before breakfast and I had to try and get a cool macro shot before he took off. Kevin (my brother) held an umbrella over my camera setup while I quickly held my flash out in the rain over the moth to take the picture and then pull it back under the umbrella to dry it off with my shirt. I took over 100 photos before I started worrying about my flash becoming too wet so at this point I pulled everything back under the tarp to review the photos. This is when I discovered the amazing background that I was planning on just keeping black. All the raindrops that were falling caught the light and showed up perfectly in the photo. I was expecting just a macro shot of a moth but it turned out to be one of my favourites from the entire trip.
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In der Volksmedizin wurde die Margerite früher bei Erkältungen oder zur Wundheilung eingesetzt.
Jedoch ist sie deutlich wirkungsärmer als die Kamille und daher heute nicht mehr eingesetzt.
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Velvet worms are truly a natural oddity. Neither worm nor velvet, these animals occupy a phylum all to themselves. Velvet worms have complex brains. Sometimes existing in social groups of up to 15 related individuals, velvet worms display intricate behaviors. They hunt together and defend their homely logs against intrusion from competing ‘families’ of velvet worms from other logs. They allow young velvet worms to ride on their backs until the young ones don’t mind getting their feet wet.
This one started out so different....I was looking for something purple...found an old purple candle....got some cool macros and then this happened as I processed it...but I really like it. I hope you have a great Tuesday. HPT!
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Perfectly camouflaged to avoid being detected by photographers, I found this lichen katydid conspicuously walking on a concrete path - try mimicking that! Lichen katydids mimic filamentous lichen that is commonly found in the trees of the rainforests and cloudforests that they inhabit in Central and South America.
This species of lichen katydid, Markia arizae was only discovered recently in 2013, in the Amazonian foothills of Colombia and Ecuador. Many photographers, my-self included, have mistaken this species for the closely related Markia hystrix. It just goes to show that you should never completely trust the taxonomic identifications of photographers, not even the Wise ones.