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Towards the end of last summer I found this European Paper Wasp with damaged wings on one of the milkweed plants in my garden. I have no idea how its wings got damaged but I figured that it had very little chance of surviving without wings. I was delighted and surprised to see that it survived all through the rest of the summer. It was out on that same milkweed plant whenever I checked. This photo was taken in my Maryland garden on 8/24/22.
For Macro Mondays "Magnetic" Theme. Each piece is about 12mm long and are sitting on a spherical magnet. Background is a beat up old ostrich feather in front of green paper.
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I took a partial day off from running around like a crazy person, trying to get everything done. It didn't work very well, as I ended up working all evening on things, but... for a while in the afternoon, I relaxed a bit.
Outside, just outside my door, I saw this little thing... maybe a leaf? Maybe some stage of a insect's life? It was small... I touched it with a dead leaf and it moved! It was alive.
So, I used my id app to find out what it was, and then took this 50 photo focus stack of the creature.
I am leaving my original identification in the brackets, because there is so much discussion, in the comments, based on my original id. But, Wes Iversen correctly identified this creature as Isa textula, which DOES live in the USA.
[Original, incorrect identification: Turns out it is the larva of a nondescript brown butterfly, with no name I could find, except its Latin name of Thosea sinensis., which is Chinese, and does NOT live in the USA, unless it was brought by accident.]
(The rest of the description fits BOTH creatures, who are almost identical looking.)
See all those little hairs.... especially those ones coming off what would be the spine area... if insects had spines? Those hairs are dangerous. If you just brush up against one of these critters you will instantly start to burn and sting with an allergic reaction. They even warn that some people might have a severe reaction and might have to go to the hospital!
Fortunately for me, I didn't touch it. After I photographed it, prodded it onto a leaf, and carried it to a patch of woodland, where the app said it lives. I checked later, and it was gone from where I left it.
So, a new critter for me, which I always find exciting. I had time to do all the stuff I have to do on the photo.... loading all 50 photos into my editing program and editing the raw images... then changing all the raw images into TIFFs, so they would be accepted by the Helicon Focus program, then putting them all into Helicon Focus and waiting for them to load, then waiting for Helicon Focus to put all the images together into what you see here, and then editing that image.
I have continued to enjoy all your photos, even if I am too rushed to comment. Thanks for looking at mine!
Golden hour sunshine lights up a field of wildflowers. This is focus stack of three images. Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA, May 2022
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Have you ever noticed nodules on the bottom of a leaf and wondered what they were? According to an AI search that I did, they were most likely galls.
Galls are abnormal growths of plant tissue that occur in response to irritation from insects, mites, or other organisms. They are formed by the plant as a protective measure to wall off the source of irritation.
Galls can take many forms, and can appear as bumps, blisters, warts, or fuzzy growths. You can see one form of them on the bottom of the leaf in this shot.
Macro Mondays: “Green” theme
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The handle on my pickleball paddle is getting quite worn. I probably would have replaced it by now, but I haven't played yet this year due to the coronavirus lockdown.
Macro Mondays: Handle theme
For those who may not have heard of pickleball, it's a game played with a paddle using a plastic ball with holes. It's played either indoors or outdoors on a badminton-sized court with a slightly modified tennis net. It's said to be one of the fastest growing sports in America. With more than 3 million active players in the U.S., the game posted a 650 percent increase in numbers over the six years ending in 2019, according to one report that I read.
The sport got its name because the guy who invented it had a dog named Pickles that would chase the ball and run off with it when the game was being played.
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These flies were about half a centimetre long and it was only by chance that I spotted them when checking the leaves of the bush. I had no Macro lens with me so I used what was on the camera. It's 5 images focus stacked in Photoshop.
It's the head of a Red-headed Woodpecker figurine that my wife gave me a couple of years ago for my birthday. I'm not sure what it's made of, but it's quite solid and has a pretty realistic look.
Macro Mondays: "Figurine" theme
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Image created by focus stacking 55 images. Leica Apo Macro 100mm Elmarit-R with Elpro mounted on Canon 5Ds R at f8 ISO 100 0.8 sec.
A beautiful male Amegilla found in Provence in August 2020.
Fieldstack based on 41 images, assembled using Zerene Stacker (Pmax & Dmap).
Post production using Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 and Lightroom 5.6.
Canon 600D. Canon EF 100mm macro, ISO-100, F/5.6, 1/10 sec. Natural morning light.
Alpes de Haute Provence, South East of France.
For Macro Mondays "Medical" Theme. Taken on a piece of copy paper laid on a light table. No skin was harmed taking this picture!
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Focus-Stacking war das Theme gestern bei uns im Fotoclub; Dazu werden mehrere Aufnahmen gemacht und dann zusammen gerechnet, um ein von Vorne bis Hinten scharfes Bild zu erhalten
Focus stacking was the topic of discussion at our photography club yesterday; this involves taking several shots and then combining them to produce an image that is sharp from front to back
Happy Fox Friday. The one fox kit looks like it has no intention of sharing its morsel with its sibling. Teton Valley, Idaho, USA, May 2026
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Correction tape on silver paper
Cette feuille de papier argenté donne d'intéressants reflets, j'en ai profité pour faire cet essai en vue du prochain Macro mondays.
Stack de 16 images