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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?
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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Strobist info:
Strip light camera left 21.00h
Softbox 100X80 cm camera right 03.00h
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.
Elegant White-moustached Simaethula
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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.
Freaking cool macro opportunity at Courthouse Falls in the North Carolina Mountains. How gorgeous is he? :)
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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.
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.
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.
D500
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!
Margerite
La Marguerite commune
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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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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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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.
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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.
These overheated days, nothing tastes better than homemade lollipops, straight out of the freezer =)
I received a notepad at a recent Tamron event in CT. I thought the cover would make a cool macro shot. I don't know why but the letters look like they are raised off the surface; they are actually sunken into the cover. If you look a bit longer, you definitely see that the letters are not raised. This was done with a Tamron 180mm macro lens.
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Pictured here is a small nocturnal insectivorous bat, common in Ecuador’s Amazon region. It feeds on flying insects, snatching them from the air like tiny flying pigs. This bat is attracted to insects, insects are attracted to lights – including head torches. My advice from personal experience is to turn off your head torch when ‘buzzed’ by an insectivorous bat. Better to brave the darkness than risk an accidental faceplant from a bat.
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3 JUNE 12
My intention this morning was to go out for another personal photowalk. I headed out at 6:30am because it is so hot here, that now I must resort to early morning treks. So I get downtown and I realize, I'm sort of bored of it. My mission three years ago was to photograph one street at a time, and I'm now at the 50% mark, so I didn't even bother to get out. I just turned the car around and began to drive to H park so I could capture good old fashioned nature. Then out of the corner of my eye I see my street art obsession, Daniel "Weah" Anguilu's work. I photographed this building a year ago, but only the one side, but now it is on the roof, on the backs of the building, all the way around. So I hopped out and got all kinds of shots. I was so giddy. This man "owns" Houston! Every corner now I see his work. As soon as I think I've got 'em all, 10 more Spring up.
So I finish with this building and I'm now officially on my way to H park when I pull up to a stoplight and the two guys on either side of me are discussing how the one wants a job with the other. Green light, get to the next light and there sitting in the middle of the street directly across from me is a completely naked man!!! Legs open showing all his glory to the world. I'm pretty sure this guy was probably missing a few screws because the look on his face was completely blank, like cold, dead eyes. In the location I was at, we have metro rails on either side that do not allow for right or left turns on the one way across the rail, so I had to sit there until the light turned green. Awkward!!!
Next it was on in search of a hidden gem called the paper trees. I saw a hint of them at 3am last year coming back from a party, but just never got around to taking the photo. I had to do some crazy driving round and round to get a parking spot to get to this place, but it was totally worth it.
And finally I get to H park and it is the stuff of dreams. The early morning light was hitting everything just right. I got some cool macros and pix of ducks swimming in the sunlight. Then I found a hidden path that led to pure awesomeness. Cue the song "Pure Imagination." Strange birds, rabbits, turtles, beavers, squirrels, a duck that tried to fight me...ugh, I was sooo gone. Me and my camera were totally gone.
After my adventure on the hidden trail, I get back to civilization and what do I hear...this guy yelling and cursing at this woman. She's clearly pissed and so is he. Its barily 8 in the morning...what could they possibly be so angry about. I started walking in their direction because it started to get ugly. He was yelling out not just curse words but he was referencing some pretty lude descriptions of certain body parts. The mother next to me who just rolled up with her daughter and her baby looked at me, and I looked at her, and she started yelling for her older child to stay close. This is the point where the crusader in me kicked in. Two reasons....one, I've told this story several times, but I had an ex-co-worker who as violently assaulted and I watch What would you do and they talked about this issue and people's general inactivity when it comes to seeing women in trouble....so I started walking toward the woman and I was going to ask her, hey do you need help or for me to call 9-1-1, but before I could even do any of that she'd reached this bathroom pavillion and he started to walk fast on her and then I saw her open the door and he literally grabbed her arm and shoved her in and closed the door. At this point I'm about 50 yards away and since the other woman had gone off to play with her kids, I was by myself. I didn't want to go in to the bathroom because there was no one watching me and who knows if this guy was armed. Then there were no witnesses if I did call the police. So I sat down on a nearby stone top and said to myself, I'll wait here so that if she does come out again, I can ask if she needs help or anything...5 minutes, 10, 15, nothing. I hear the door shake even at the distance I was, but I'm like what do I do. Twenty minutes passed and still nothing. I really did try and do the right thing in this situation, but think I failed. After a little while longer, I walked off. In the other situations I've seen and stuff like this has happened, I had witnesses, I was able to call the police, or get a manager to help me, or at least talk to the woman in distress, but not this time, and as I was telling this story later on, my friend was like, why didn't you just call the police...but in domestics, its a catch 22 because they are going to say to me did you see him hit her, and well, I didn't...he can deny shoving her arm and say he just touched her arm, and if she is one of those women who will never admit she's in danger, it may be next to impossible to get her to admit anything happened.
So all of this happened before 9am. Its been a strange and crazy morning...I'm going to do some editing and then put the photos up later.