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I crafted the "grass" out of strands of 16ga electrical wire. I cut a small length of wire off and pulled the individual strands out. Then I bent them over in half. Once I had enough of them, I used a hot glue gun to keep the strands all together and make a small "plant." I then bent the strands over in a gentle shape. Then it was just a matter of applying the water drops in front of a reflective background and adding light.
Pretty simple, huh?
This is a 23 image photo stack using a new tool in my kit that I got for Christmas. A macro focusing rail or "slider." With it I can make very small adjustments to the focus by moving the entire camera forward ever so slightly. These are very small adjustments with this specialized tool.
Shot using a Canon FD 50mm f3.5 SSC Macro Lens, plus the 1:1 Canon FD 25 U extension tube. Shot at full 1:1 magnification. Each image was shot @ f4.
The same jumper on skin, taken closer with Nikkor 18-55mm VR reversed@18mm. Photo cropped to center.
Explored Dec. 17, 2008, page19
Detail of red zip wrapping around the suitcase. Beside the unusal form, I love the color.
Don't have the exact size, since the photo was taken trough a shop window, but less the the allowed 7.6 cm in length.
Learning by doing, a nice workshop on food photography, with Eileen SchƤfer in Munich. First a short introduction to the subject, then start to photograph the stuff everybody brought. Actually Romanesco was on my Wishlist, but I could not get it in time. So lucky me, another participant brought some and I was able to borrow it for a couple of minutes.
Strobist info, since this is not my light, a small, square soft box feathered from above
3 mei 2009.
Large is available..:))
Panorpa communis (m)
De schorpioenvliegen (Panorpidae) zijn een familie van insecten die behoren tot de orde Mecoptera.
Het is een interessante groep die behoort tot de oudste insectenordes die een volledige gedaanteverwisseling bezitten.
Wereldwijd zijn ongeveer 500 soorten beschreven, verdeeld over een vijftal families.
Kenmerkend voor sommige schorpioenvliegen (soorten welke behoren tot de familie van de Panorpidae) is het tangvormig orgaan dat mannetjes aan het achterlijf hebben, dat omhoog gekruld wordt gedragen en dat daarom enigszins doet denken aan de staart van een schorpioen, maar geen angel heeft en verder volkomen ongevaarlijk is. Het insect gebruikt het alleen bij de paring.
Schorpioenvliegen zijn roofinsecten en de soort Panorpa communis komt algemeen voor in Nederland en Belgiƫ, meestal kan hij worden gevonden op lage vegetatie op wat vochtige, beschaduwde plekken. Naast dode insecten en ander aas, worden ze aangetrokken door plantaardig voedsel.
Bron: Wikipedia
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Rocky Horror Picture Show: The Time Warp
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Trying to do something abstracty with the Morning Glory flowers
One or two of you may have noticed I've been away for a little while. Unfortunately, I took ill last week and was admitted to hospital. I'm back at home but still feeling fragile and hollowed out.
This is a macro of a ranunculus flower, one out of a bunch of three of them which I got at the village market ten days ago. I had the intention of trying to take a half-decent photo of them shortly after I bought them but then I found myself in hospital. It was an absolute delight though to find them still blooming when I returned home on Wednesday so yesterday I dusted down the camera and took this. I've since found out that ranunculus are great flowers for long-lasting blooms.
I'll be catching up when and where I can. Happy weekend to one and all :-)
Another sunny day in Seattle and another lunch hour...this one filled with some downward POVs courtesy of a fav prime, my fiddy f/1.4. :)
Thank you all for your feedback & favs!
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These are not parasites, but are just hitching a lift. The mites are also called hitchhiker mites as a consequence. Despite not being parasites the beetle was clearly compromised as it could not see where it was going and was burdened by the extra weight.