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Moving Leaf Insects have such good camouflage, they sometimes fool each other! You will often find individuals with bites marks from other leaf insects who thought they were encountering a leafy meal instead of a fellow bug.
Most people are familiar with our butterflies, but we also have some *amazing* live insects in our collection. Some are on display in the Hall of Entomology, and some go out to schools through our Bugs on Wheels program. Our entomologist, Erin M, raises these amazing arthropods, and she let us invade their abode with a couple of cameras recently. We came away with these photos, and hopefully a pretty cool video series (coming soon!)
An idea for a series of framed prints, not for photo club competitions, but more for hanging in a line on a wall somewhere. I have yet to find the wall. A hotel somewhere might be nice!
Kitamoto Nature Observation Park, Kitamoto-shi(city) Saitama-ken(Prefecture), Japan
埼玉県北本市(さいたまけん きたもとし) 北本自然観察公園(きたもとしぜんかんさつこうえん)
Autumn time in Christchurch.
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The sun chose this leaf to be photographed and so I did. so simple a subject brought to life by the light of the morning sun.
Hand held at 2degC with almost frozen fingers at eq. 600mm focal length in low light.
Olympus mZD 300mm f/4 lens
In NATURE we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it
The bottom side of a Sweetgum leaf from last fall. Gaston County, NC, USA. Canon T6i, 1/5, f11, -1.0, ISO 100, Sigma 70mm EX DG Macro, tripod, RAW. 5/5/2017
I stepped on this leaf in the parking lot at my office and then noticed the patterning on it. Luckily, it was undamaged and I was able to make this shot.
The leaf is only about 2 inches long and the colors and pattern are completely natural. Aside from some sharpening, the only enhancement I did in Photoshop Elements was the background blur.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), the leaf dried out considerably sitting in the office all day before I took the photo. I'm going to see if I can "rehydrate" it a bit.
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