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Misumena Vatia on a flower waiting for its next victim ...
same spider as here => www.flickr.com/photos/curufinwe-xiane/9349038731/in/photo...
Slime molds are fascinating, communal organisms. For several weekends in a row, I kept going out to look for them. However, no matter where I went, I always ended up having to return to the same location. And in that location, each time I found different species of slime molds. You sit down next to a single decaying log, and there might be around 10 different species of slime molds there... It gave me the impression that they form certain communities and live not too far from one another.
As for this particular shot, it took some effort. Countless mosquitoes bit me so badly that there wasn’t a single patch of healthy skin left. But for a beautiful shot, it’s worth enduring. In the end, the result turned out quite pleasing.
The image is stacked from ≈ 140 focus zones.
2025-08-31
Pygmy Seahorse, Zwergseepferdchen (Hippocampus bargibanti)
100mm and CMC1
Divesite: Pulau Bangka (North Sulawesi/Indonesia)
Chrysilla volupe male jumping spider, found mostly in India and Srilanka. Its considered as most colorful spider found in India
This week's Macro Monday's theme: "Less than an Inch".
Shot with Canon G9XII in macro mode, and cropped some more.
Happy Macro Mondays!
Face of the damselfly Platycnemis pennipes.
More pictures in the stack would have been necessary but the damselfly was not quiet enough :
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Scale : head width ~ 4 mm
Technical settings :
- Focus stack of 5 images
- Schneider Kreuznach Componon 28 mm f/4 at f/5.6 reversed on 68 mm extension tubes
- natural light : 100 iso - 1/3 s
Captured up close with the 500mm lens, even a common gull can be quite spectacular.
Distance still about 12m
SUPER SIZE, you know you want to....
My daughter took this picture... she loves to take extreme close ups... I had this printed as a 16x24 on Metallic paper and it looks ahhhmazzzzing!
no it’s not burning, just light from the side through the wax for the light from the left. Beside the aperture 2.8 and close distance lead to a very shallow field of depth.
Reflection of mini irises in a tiny droplet.
'Micro-macro', taken on tripod with telelens and Raynox 250 clamp to get as much details as possible.
==SOOC==
Puffins are any of three species of small alcids in the bird genus Fratercula. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil.
The Saltee Islands are a pair of small islands lying 5 kilometres off the southern coast of County Wexford in Ireland. The two islands are Great Saltee and Little Saltee. They have been largely unoccupied since the early 20th century and have been privately owned by the Neale family since 1943.
By any standards the Saltee Islands are remarkable, notwithstanding the fact that there are over 220 species of birds recorded. There are three main groups of birds on these islands:
- Breeding sea birds
- Resident land birds
- Migrant birds
A vast amount of knowledge of the breeding birds has been gathered over the years by visiting Ornithologists. The late Prince Michael and the Neale family have always respected this bird sanctuary and treated visiting Ornithologists and bird watchers alike with hospitality. Most day trippers and birds watchers enjoy viewing the Gannets, Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbills, Cormorants etc
This is another slime mold, which is particularly difficult to photograph because of its dark and glossy surface. Still, I managed to capture something. They are characterized by always gathering in clusters, a bit differently from most slime molds. After photographing it, I also noticed that it has quite a colorful surface. It may not look very aesthetic, but it is still an incredibly fascinating organism. That’s nature...
Focus stacked at f/2.8 from 56 shots using Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x ultra macro and Canon EOS R6 Mark II.
Trabajo extremo de la cabeza de una carcoma. 120 disparos 0,02 mm. Con un Nikon E Plan 10x 160/-. Ampliación aproximada 12x.
A close-up 10:1 Photomicrography image of the beautiful iridescent rainbow reflections of a Bismuth Crystal.
Information quoted from Wikipedia:
"Bismuth is a chemical element that has the symbol Bi. Bismuth is the most naturally diamagnetic of all metals, and only mercury has a lower thermal conductivity. The spiral stair stepped structure of a bismuth crystal is the result of a higher growth rate around the outside edges than on the inside edges. The variations in the thickness of the oxide layer that forms on the surface of the crystal causes different wavelengths of light to interfere upon reflection, thus displaying a rainbow of colors".
Gear:
Nikon CFI Plan 10X Microscope Objective.
Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED IF AF-S VR Lens.
Manfrotto 454 Micrometric Positioning Sliding Plate.
Not included: Lots of patience.
Processing:
24 x RAW images Focus Stacked in Photoshop.
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Another view from the Horned Dung Beetle ( Copris Lunaris )
Tech info | shot based on 97 exposures stacked at ~4x magnification
Stacking Soft / Affinity Photo
Canon macrophoto lens 35mm f/2.8 | Nikon PB-6 Bellows | Sony A7
Controlled highkey exposure. Simple white rings used to test minimalism, composition, and light distribution.
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Oniscidea is the suborder of Isopoda that contains Woodlice and here we have my most extreme Woodlouse image to date. This is a 19 image handheld focus stack of a Woodlouse, this was kind of an experiment, I was actually looking for Megalothorax minimus when I found this, I had 108mm of extension tubes between my MP-E at full magnification and my 1.4x teleconverter. So I thought lets try and focus stack this amiable Woodlouse, I had my ISO at 320, shutter speed at 1/125 and my aperture at f/5. I think next time I may try F/4.5 or lower, but I was pleasantly surprised with the results. If you look at the ocelli you can see my camera lens reflected in them, I also really love the textures of the exoskeleton. I'm not actually sure what the magnification was, I will try and work it out at some point :o)
I seem to remember that Woodlice store calcium deposits under the exoskeleton, I think that is what the white patches are in this image :0) I'm thinking this is likely to be Porcellio scaber, the Common Rough Woodlouse :0)
Magnification was somewhere around x11 :0)
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