In these dark and scary, uncertain times, it helps me to focus on the ways in which we are all connected, the ways in which we are all similar. Whatever differences that may exist, these are superficial. Underneath, we are all made of the same stuff, with the same desires, the same insecurities, the same hopes for our children and for the future. We want them to have a better world than the one we have known and more opportunities for the future.

dark-tipped forest skimmer

You can call me Brother.

metalmark moth. Choreutidae

grenadier

common tit, Lycaenidae

green tree snail

Agrionoptera insignis

yellow vein lancer, Hesperiidae

dark-tipped forest skimmer

hawk moth. Sphingidae

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the canon 18-55mm kit lens. This can either be used as an exension tube or as I was using a lens reversal system that gives full electronic control of the lens. Small feather at max magnification

Crambidae

ring, Nymphalidae

Rhyothemis phyllis

Pyralidae

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the canon 18-55mm kit lens. This can either be used as an exension tube or as I was using a lens reversal system that gives full electronic control of the lens. Small feather at min magnification

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the canon 18-55mm kit lens. This can either be used as an exension tube or as I was using a lens reversal system that gives full electronic control of the lens

yellow-barred flutterer

planthopper, Flatidae

hawk moth. Sphingidae

Macrogomphus quadratus

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the Tamron 28-75mm zoom lens reversed. Image quality pretty good and better than with the kit lens not suprisingly

The business end of a network cable.

2013PAD 321/365 (17/11)

Erebidae, Aganainae

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the canon 18-55mm kit lens. This can either be used as an exension tube or as I was using a lens reversal system that gives full electronic control of the lens.

Maximum magnification with the lens set at 18mm is 5:1. Focus distance in front of the adapter was about 25mm

common mormon swallowtail, Papilionidae

Nymphalidae

Orchithemis pulcherrima

Stephanidae

Zeltus amasa, Lycaenidae

Agrionoptera insignis

Hesperiidae

yellow vein lancer, Hesperiidae

Cerambycidae

plume moth, Pterophoridae

grass yellow, Pieridae

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the canon 18-55mm kit lens. This can either be used as an extnsion tube or as I was using a lens reversal system that gives full electronic control of the lens. Minimum magnification with the lens set at 55mm is about 0.86:1

Macrogomphus quadratus

Hesperiidae

palm bob, Hesperiidae

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the canon 18-55mm kit lens

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the Tamron 28-75mm zoom lens reversed.

Minimum mag = 1.2:1

Playing with a Meike MK-C-UP multifunctional extension tube with the canon 18-55mm kit lens

lichen moth. Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini