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ornamental grasses offer up so many options for framing macro shots and getting different compositions - finding ways to work in geometry (especially triangles), leading lines, frames, context and such... lotsa fun if one is patient enough
backyard capture in chesterfield
MADE EXPLORE: #402 on Friday, November 13, 2009
Better seen large!
I actually got out today and met up with some flickr friends. It was fun meeting Lynne, Michele (lizardgal) and Nicki (hummingbird queen) finally after a long time being on flickr. I definitely want to meet up more! and soon!
The weather was beautiful today in Phoenix and the Rio Salado Habitat is really a cool place to take pictures. Michele found a neat waterfall I had not seen before.
Back out today in search of these little springtails again, not sure which this one is but very cute anyway.
Canon 5Dmkiii, Fitted with a 2x Entender, Plus a MP-E65, MT-24EX Flash fitted with my diffusers, one handheld shot using a monopod.
Back out today in search of these little springtails again, not sure which this one is but very cute anyway.
Canon 5Dmkiii, Fitted with a 2x Entender, Plus a MP-E65, MT-24EX Flash fitted with my diffusers, one handheld shot using a monopod.
A fly rests on a false dandelion (otherwise known as Autumn Hawkbit or Common Cat's Ear). A tiny parasitoid wasp sits nearby.
The wildflower is a valuable late-season source of nectar for bees, butterflies, and autumn-flying flies like hoverflies from July through October.
Processed in Snapseed 4.1.5 and the film style Kodak Porta 160 applied.
Born Free -
Autumn arrived just when I was preparing to leave the house and I was in time to capture him beside the chrysalis drying his dainty wings. The beige cocoon is 2.5 cm with pointed horns at the bottom (the head) and the upright wing measures around 3.5 cm. A teaspoon of his abdomen fluid was collected, not for unorthodox beauty treatment of course. Before I start my hike, I returned to the place where he and his siblings began as eggs. Metabolic waste fully emptied now, I released him in the air and couldn’t help feeling a sense of gratitude as my butterfly flew heavenward.
(#11) Autumn Leaf Butterfly With 2 Prominent Eyespots below the hind wings, 1 Feb 2015
How To Know If You’re A Snob -
Have you ever walked into a shop and asked for the cheapest bag? The stiff-necked staff will roll their eyes to show the whites and you feel small despite the fact you’re taller in height. Intellectual, fashion, digital, musical etc., snobs differ in genus but they have certain traits in common. Here’s my checklist, tabulated based on experience. I avoid snobbish people like plague, keep ten feet away from me if you have five or more nods.
1.Habitually walk with your nose in the air
2.Pronounce Amarone Della Valpolicella backwards fluently without a hitch
3.Can’t stand people with orange toe socks, because they called it Lascoste when it was really a dead crocodile
4.A weekend getaway is to watch the sunset on the Barbardos island
5.You scold the Japanese-speaking Italian waiter in French because you ladle a leech in your soup
6.Attend The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart’s opera) more often than you watch TV
7.Tasmanian Rain is the only bottled water you drink because it is collected from the sky, without touching the ground
8.Your Swiss made computer mouse is cast from 18 carat white gold
9.Wear Prada gloves when you eat raw steak at Chez Panisse
10.You NEVER write a good comment for anyone on Flickr, especially Singaporebugtracker
How did you score? I have to warn, treading the snobbish road is lonely and no fun. With eyes forever skyward, it’s no surprise snobs slip often on slobbered trail of snails. Scrappy Dappy Doo!
Going Bananas Over A Monkey -
The kind-hearted weevils can’t bear to see me squat like ducks looking up at trees so one flew right in front my path. I walked up quickly and my eyes palpitated because it was a different species. The citrus splatters on her coat matched her legs colors exactly and I compliment her good fashion sense. Too happy for words, she executed a monkey swing to the underside of the shade. A topsy-turvy weevil and dangling receivers are too much for me, I smiled until next morning. Inquisitive and adventurous, how can anyone frown on weevils? Gardeners gnashed their teeth and howled, but I’m utterly besotted with weevils.
Three Questions For Harry -
Ladies desire to be sleek but do men aspire being hairy? From far I saw a spider with woolly hair and called out to him. Unexpectedly, he didn’t look away when our eyes met so I queried, “Aren’t you conscious about people staring because you are so bushy? Do these white fleece turned black when you grow old? Would you feel cold if I shave all your furs away?” The sharp-witted spider said, “What’s wrong with hairy? If I raised my front limbs, my sweaty armpits will make my foes back off immediately. Dark is good because it makes me invisible in the pitch black woods and lastly, whether you like bald or hairy spiders, I don’t really care!” Harry scooted off in his hairy legs and our conversation ended abruptly. Whoops, did I touch a raw nerve when I mentioned that smoothness he didn’t get?
Visually Captivating Hawk -
This is the final instar of a moth caterpillar, the darkened color means he is prepared to wrap himself in silk and go through an imminent transformation. A salted egg-yolk on an orange gummy, the colors are so fabulous that I squeal in delight.
Harmonia axyridis
Macro phone photography on found insects
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This one is not happy being photographed..
..you are literally what the cat dragged in :(
An uncharacteristically glum dragonfly in recovery after being presented to me as a 'gift' from my cat.
Focus stack = 3 images (F13, 1/160sec, iso100).
Canon 100mm macro lens, 1.4x teleconverter plus 36mm extension tube.
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spent an awesome morning with Dave(cotaar) and Theresa(keleka656), both flickr contacts and superb photographers, shooting in the greenhouses of the Chicago Botanic Garden....and to start of the Valentine's week, i'm posting this shot of 3 ladybugs getting it on....in fact, there were a handful of these shy insects just getting it on....i think Al Green's song "Let's Get It On" was playing in the background....pls. View On Black
I can't resist posting more Dragons. I just adore them. When I start to see them emerging, it's a feeling that is like welcoming back old friends. Please note, this is my husbands hairy fingers, not mine LOL.
Keeping Your Sanity With A Depresso -
Two barefooted butterflies were waltzing on the forest floor, with the sand gyrating in tune.
Meenie (left) : “Burt, do you love me?”
Burt: “Sure I do, I feel so dazed and dizzy whenever I think of you.
Meenie: “But Burt, how much exactly do you love me?”
Burt: “Aw, I love you so much I hadn’t brushed my teeth since our first kiss.”
Meenie was so high in happiness she flutters up a log but returned shortly with another question.
Meenie: “I forgot to ask you how deep is your love.”
Burt thought for a while and reply: “As deep as the puddle in front of us?
Meenie burst out in tears: “Waa! I just knew it, your love for me is so shallow and not even ocean deep.”
Plump Cuddly Shrimp (Lateral View) -
Taking care of caterpillars is easy; you just need to change the leaves in the container daily. Now I keep the whole stalk (with the caterpillar) in a vase and the leaves last longer, replacing every alternate day. Taking notes their feeding habits and behaviors, a caterpillar metamorphosis is most interesting, much like observing a fetus growing.
The Nawab caterpillar will stop growing when he reaches 5cm. shortening again at the fifth instar; he spins a silk pad to attach his anal prologs on a stem. The head capsule will shed and the silver crescent fades into streaks becoming a chrysalis. In a few days time, the plain Nawab butterfly will emerge from his sleep.