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Mosquito larvae, with breathing tubes pointed upwards to the water's surface. My wife spotted these rather unpleasant larvae in some stagnant water in an old plant pot in the garden. I'm not sure, but suspect these are from a species called Culex pipiens, which is very common in England. Taken using an 50mm EL Nikkor f/2.8 enlarger lens (stopped down to f/11) reversed onto extension tubes. Original macro ratio on the camera sensor was approximately 2.6:1, but I have cropped in by about 40%. I used a ring flash for illumination.
On the hike to Mosquito Beach in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, you come across Mosquito Falls. There is no official way down to the river below the falls, and how can you take a waterfall picture without getting down to the river? Then I found that someone had piled 5 rocks on top of each other just below the cliff to the left. With some trepidation about the stability of the rock-pile, I dropped down and then brought down camera and tripod.
I have found I cannot often take pictures of waterfalls without falling in at some point. After doing that and getting both feet wet, and in the process getting this shot, I found to my dismay that there was no way to jump back up the way I had come down, without someone to pull me up from above. Fortunately after about 10 minutes of trying in vain, I found an alternate, albeit muddy "trail" back to the hiking path and from there on to the beach.
As I always say, "Whatever it takes..".
From the creek on my property. The mosquitos just about took me away, also about 31 celsius. Almost fell in.
Doesn't look like a beach, does it. Well, there is a sandy portion, but this part is made of this neat shale-y kind of rock. We had rented a 14mm lens, so used it to exaggerate the perspective and the close up lines.
It would've been neat to stay until sunset, but we were a little worried about hiking back to the parking area on an unknown trail, even though we had lights (we had come down a different trail that was a bit difficult in places). Overall, the trail back was pretty good, and of course it looked like there was some good light, but safety first! We witnessed some silly tourists running down the trail to try to catch the sunset. It didn't look like they were prepared to hike back in the dark. They also fit a certain stereotype...but I will be nice and not name it.
There weren't any mosquitoes on the beach, but there were biting flies! Ouch!
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It always amazes me to see how very mosquito infested the badlands are, considering how dry it is there. The last couple of times we have visited happened in August, in both times, if it wasn't for strong mosquito repellent we would be eaten alive, I'm sure. It was no different the morning we headed out of Drumheller to see if we can catch sunrise, having spotted a couple of interesting places by the highway on our way back from Vulcan, AB. Luckily, they have eased up a bit after the sunrise, but when we stopped originally there was a cloud of them hovering around our vehicle and they have managed to get in a few pictures as well. I was debating their removal from the frames, but decided to leave them there. After all, they are a part of the landscape, right? ;D
Transmission Electron Microscope image of mosquito wing.
Courtesy of Mr. Durga Prasad Muvva , UGC-Networking Resource Centre, School of Chemistry and The Centre for Nanotechnology, University of Hyderabad
Image Details
Instrument used: Tecnai
Magnification: 9900x
Voltage: 200 kV
Spot: 1
Working Distance: 3
de Havilland Mosquito scanned image from the Permann Collection--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
This is a small section of the trailing edge of a mosquito’s wing at about x400 time’s magnification. An amazing array of scales protrude from the edges of the wing all the way round. These are layered in a way that must assist with flight. The veins in the wing also have two different types of scale - one type visible on the upper surface and another type on the lower wing surface. You can see the shadowed scales below the surface in this photograph. It is difficult even with multiple exposures combined, [photo stacking], to truly capture it all. Everything is so 3D at high magnification that only the tiniest slice of it is in focus at any one time. By the way - the little greenish flecks scattered over the image are I suspect hairs and other particles on the under side of the cover slip - hard to get everything right!
Looking at such delicate wing structures makes me think of the hymn "All things bright and beautiful'.
When I made this image I was standing out in Lake Michigan(western shore) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan fly fishing for bass. The mosquitoes had driven me out there. They were unbearable along the stream and anywhere inshore.
The sun is peaking through the trees in the middle of the image. I made five images and used NIK's HDR program to finish off the scene.
There was an onshore breeze that blew the mosquitoes back off the shore. When the wind stopped they were on me instantly. I did catch a number of bass and northern pike, but a pint of blood was lost.
michigan sunset
lighting up the clouds
on a mosquito evening
"The Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 56b) asserts that the Roman Emperor Titus was punished by God for having destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem by having a mosquito fly into Titus' nose, picking at his brain, ceaselessly buzzing, driving him crazy and eventually causing his death." - wikipedia
Model: Molly Mitchell of Deshret Dance Company
Makeup + Hair: Lindsey Watkins
Wardrobe: Kathleen Crowley, Black Lotus Clothing, Molly Mitchell
Hat: Redd Walitski
Military mosquito tent ballskirt and photo: Libby Bulloff
Shot at Starfish Studios, Seattle, WA. February 2009.
It's the Mosquito PC-1 (www.flickr.com/photos/128261082@N05/15273562999/), but with an amazing render by Iceleftd! (www.flickr.com/photos/iceleftd/)
Mosquito A very old, skinny, slender, bent, drunk, cheerful old man, sitting full-length in shorts on a branch with giant long mosquito wings. Bent back. Very long, sharp nose. hugs a giant, transparent, very large bottle with transparent red juice, nose stuck in the bottle. Grotesque. Side view. Against the background of the forest. it's raining. gloomy.
v.2.0
Designed by Marc Kirschenbaum
Folded by Adri 79
Paper rice+tissue paper 25x25 cm - 65 steps
Model size : length 7 cm
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Mi Nueva Galeria www.flickr.com/photos/scollazo/
Mi Galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Kodak Trix 400
Yashica Minister III
Yashinon 45mm F:2.8
Epson Perfection V500 Scanner.
Lightroom 3
Aviary
The Mosquito was powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines -the same engine that also powered the famous Spitfire fighter. The engines should really have six exhaust pipes on each side, but on this scale the most I managed to fit was four.
This morning's sunrise shoot was a bust for me. I couldn't take the mozzies any longer and left before the sun came up. If it had promised to be a better sunrise then I probably would have persevered but as such there were no clouds in the sky at all so no chance of some nice skies :(
So here's a shot from a few weeks ago from Shorncliffe :)
Taken on a Canon EOS 40D, 0.9 hard grad and Sigma 10-20mm lens. Pseudo HDR from one RAW file.
De Havilland Moquito on take off. Based at the Virginia Beach Military Aviation Museum, this is the first one ever restored to flight capabilities and one of only two in the world capable of flight.
The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was nicknamed "The Wooden Wonder". Originally conceived as an unarmed fast bomber, the Mosquito was adapted to roles including low to medium-altitude daytime tactical bomber, high-altitude night bomber, pathfinder, day or night fighter, fighter-bomber, intruder, maritime strike aircraft, and fast photo-reconnaissance aircraft. It was also used by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as a fast transport to carry small high-value cargoes to, and from, neutral countries, through enemy-controlled airspace.
When the Mosquito began production in 1941, it was one of the fastest operational aircraft in the world. Entering widespread service in 1942, the Mosquito was a high-speed, high-altitude photo-reconnaissance aircraft, continuing in this role throughout the war. From mid-1942 to mid-1943 Mosquito bombers flew high-speed, medium or low-altitude missions against factories, railways and other pinpoint targets in Germany and German-occupied Europe. From late 1943, Mosquito bombers were formed into the Light Night Strike Force and used as pathfinders for RAF Bomber Command's heavy-bomber raids. They were also used as "nuisance" bombers, often dropping Blockbuster bombs - 4,000 lb (1,812 kg) "cookies" - in high-altitude, high-speed raids that German night fighters were almost powerless to intercept.
It's a giant mosquito!
Crocheted using Ella Rae Classic, using the Dale the Mosquito pattern from www.freshstitches.com