The allure of pollen. Typically parked inside the day lily waiting for a piece of buzzing protein to stroll by, a grasshopper seems to be distracted by the dessert of lily pollen. Finger lickin' good!

this is a bit graphic but this is the way life is..eat or be eaten

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Una splendida sirfide intenta a raccogliere il polline 😃😃

My first serious attempt at photo stacking with the macro.

It's been taxing to get to this basic level as there's so much to consider such as light, focus points, etc.

I did have a brief go with a couple of microscope lenses...don't think I'm ready yet!

Thanks for looking :)

D300 - Sigma 180 macro

Nikon D810, Reversed Nikon 24mm f/2.8 lens, f/8, ISO 200, 1/250th sec (high flash sync speed), Nikon SB-R200 dual flash, 18 images, Helicon Stack.

You may notice that this image is particularly close, even for a reversed 24mm, but I've opted to crop in to show the exoskeleton detail.

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Just walking the street in Auckland and noticed flowers beside me with bee.

Gallikos estuary, Greece

I've no idea what this particular beetle might be, but her shell caught my eye; like pin striping or a tattoo :)

I spotted this spider on the tip of a leaf, staring at an insect. The insect was engrossed in eating a smaller insect, and did not notice the spider approaching. In an instant, the spider had jumped on the insect and the eater was itself eaten.

At Blue Eye, Albania.

D300 - Nikkor 105 Vr

Trying out some macro photograph.

In my garden.

Pesky greenfly.

Ommatius sp.

scanned slide

Here's a bee (probably a male Andrena bee - Family Andrenidae G. Andrena) at 9x. You get a nice look at the big red jaws. The whole bee is only 6 or 7mm long. 10x Seiwa M Plan Apo on a Nikon 180mm ED. I'm finding that using more images in a stack than the numbers would seem to recommend actually does give you sharper images (especially for synthetic stereo shots). This one is 174 shots spanning a depth of a bit over a mm, I think. Paper towel over styrofoam cup diffusion. Snoot/shade on the lens (that really helps a lot).

Macro Insect

Kerengga ants making a new home

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