Another dragonfly. This dragon was perched on top of my bird feeder frame. He was there for quite a while - perhaps resting up for his evening hunt.

Best viewed at the larger size. Slightly cropped for better framing.

More close-up

影の手に蟻を掴みて失ひて -Dhugal

kage-no te-ni ari-o tsukamite ushinaite

shadow's hand

grasping the ant

then losing it

-Dhugal

Saw at the seaside.

Very good face color for this beetle but some treatment is needed to make it smoother. :P

Saw near my home.

Still playing around with my new macro lens, trying to figure out sensible aperture values for short distances.

Canon EF-S 60mm 1:2.8 Macro USM

June 17th 2006

better viewed large

Saw near my home.

The color is the first eye-catching point.

Then, found also an interesting button at its tail, don't know what is it.....?

Dedicada a Ilia y a Frank quienes la rescataron de su PC (dejé algunas fotos ahí y me la acaban de enviar)

Spawn Toy of Jimi burning his guitar at Monterey

Saw this colorful friend again near my home. :D

Saw this jumping friend at the river side, which just jump onto my camera....

Another little toad-frog in the shade. Best viewed at the largest size.

someone has hurt you but you must spread your wings and fly again

Saw at farm lands.

in the set falling water.

Different from the colorful wings, it got a simple white little body. I think it may help to escape from the attacker's eyes.

Saw near my home....

I watched the watch which I used habitually.

2:40 p.m.

I seem to have been breathed in in air space of time.

I recognized that time had begun to move to notice.

It moves in time............

Not. Oh well, it's just some drink that my friend has bought.

I keep on practising with my camera macro lens, and at the same time I take part in The World Through My Eyes´s thread, "A single pen"

sigo probando para ver hasta donde llega el macro de mi cámara, y de paso participo en el thread de The World Through My Eyes, "A single pen"

I can come closer to take a closeup of his red eyes this time

A very tiny dragonfly saw at the seaside.

Quite a fast moving one, losting it after taking 2 shots only....

Btw, its eye is just like a black hole and unable to see any reflection from it even looking smooth...

koekjeszakje. genomen in het restaurant waar we geluncht hebben. een mooie foto van een uitsmijter had ik bij een eerdere meetup al gemaakt ;-)

cookie wrapper. taken in the restaurant where we had lunch. i already took a nice photo of a fried egg at the last meetup so i did not have to do it this time.

Quite an interesting guy with unproportionally big body. No idea what it is....?

Saw near my home.

Best viewed large. This poor little guy is one antenna short.

Saw an old friend at a river side.

There's a story here. I'd seen the remains of a web earlier in the day, so I headed out with my flashlight in search of what (I thought) was a pretty large regular old orb weaver. I found one of these instead! I was thrilled! A new spider to photograph - one that I'd never seen before!

I was happily shooting it - amazed that such a thing lived my yard. I got down on my knees and was leaning over trying to get the best angle when I felt something on my arm. I quickly realized it was a spider web, and with great trepidation, turned to look at what I'd gotten myself into. And there, less than two inches from my shoulder, was one of these monsters! I screamed, fell on the ground and proceeded to have the heebie-jeebies for quite some time. Just thinking about it now gives me chills!

I've since found several of these monsters in my yard. I think I was happier not knowing they existed.

Better viewed large - if you have a strong stomach!

Identified : Starbellied Orb weaver

I am thinking of entering this for Textures in Nature - topic for Camera Club.