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long live the blessed hummingbird.
I am not fast enough or skilled enough to actually catch her in the act. At the same time, other mosquitoes were trying desperately to find breaches in my suit of mosquito armor.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Mi Nueva galeria www.flickr.com/photos/scollazo/
Kodak Color-Plus
Yashica GT 45mm F;1.7
Lightroom 3
Cassidy Morris is a thug who was hired by Dr. Krayniac(Quickblade22's creation) to test some of his newer technology. This includes a basic jetpack with wings, but also more complex tech. The suit allows the user to shrink and grow back at any time they please, along with anything that is attached. Krayniac has also developed a sort of "syringe gun" that can be used to inject something in or extract from the subject of the gun. Morris carries out assassinations under Krayniac, using the shrinking feature and flight pack to stay hidden from the target. He then lands on back of the target's neck and injects a toxin into their circulatory system using the syringe gun. To the target this may feel like a simple bug bite, so if a target tries to swat him, the armored suit keeps him safe. The toxin usually takes effect about 20 seconds after the injection, resulting in the inability to breath properly, chills, blurry vision, and then death. The gun can also be used to extract tissue or fluid from the target, for "experimental purposes" as Dr. Krayniac claims.
The suit also proves to be somewhat effective in battle with enemies, as there are gadgets built into the suit such as a small grappling hook and venomous darts. The syringe gun can also spray the toxin in a gaseous form.
Few normal citizens know of the Mosquito's presence, and if they do they'll probably be mysteriously dead the next day or sooner.
Geez, how long have I been writing?
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi Galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Nueva galeria www.flickr.com/photos/scollazo/
Kodak Trix 400
Kodak D-76 dil. 1:1
Canon ii D2 (1955 Leica Copy)
Industar-22 50mm F:3.5
Epson Perfection V500 Scanner
Lightroom 3
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Aviary
El gran Mosquito, no me canso de retratar este excelente personaje Sanjuanero!!!!!
Taken very late at night last summer using a macro bracket I made especially for night shooting. This is a mosquito with mites sitting on my basement bulkhead door, outside below my kitchen window. I was trying out the bracket using a pre-aimed LED flashlight as a focus-assist light, hunting for Nursery Web Spiders. There were loads of mosquitoes around, some landing and biting any time I remained still to pop off a shot at a spider. I was working under a security light and noticed one mosquito seemed to have a small pin-point of red on it, becoming visible when it turned a certain way. When It settled on the door I was able to examine it through the viewfinder and noticed it was carrying several mites. The lens I was using... a 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor, wasn't going to provide enough magnification so I hurried indoors to rig up something that would... an older 200mm Micro-Nikkor (1981). Fitting it with a 20x Nikon industrial "Profile-Projector" lens got me the magnification I wanted. I returned outside and found... nothing. The mosquito had flown and what might have been a decent shot flew away with it. A half hour later I was working with the 200mm / 20x lens set-up on a small funnel web spider and found the same mosquito had returned, settling on a different spot on the door. Popping off one shot spooked the mosquito, sending it and its mites off into the night.
This image required a significant amount of work to make it halfway presentable. In my haste to rig up the lens combination used, I had mounted the Profile-projector lens a bit "skewed". The 52mm empty filter ring I had fitted it with was made of a kind of very hard plastic, and as a result was slightly cross-threaded when I hurriedly screwed it onto the 200mm. The resulting image was soft and suffered from a heavy dose of chromatic aberration, making the pic nearly a "throw-away". A great deal of cloning and selective desaturation was needed to get it to where it is. The plastic ring was tossed and replaced with a metal one.
Nikon D40, 200mm f/4 Micro-Nikkor set at f22, focused at infinity, with a Nikon 20x "Profile-Projector" lens mounted on the 200mm. Speed 1/2000 sec. Lighting provided by an SB-23 Speedlight flashed through a "mini" diffuser made from the white plastic bowl that comes in a "Healthy Choice" frozen dinner.
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Some sort of Quonset hut at the mosquito infested abandoned airfield from a few months back. You know its bad when even the locals say its the most mosquitoes they've ever seen.
I like how the doormat complements the shape of structure.
(3 second exposure)
We have two mosquito eater traps, that are placed on each side of our cabin to rid us of the nasty critters. Doc emptied just one of our traps this morning, and it contained millions of dead insects. That's millions that won't be around to re-produce, or bite the hell out of us. I am so grateful to the person that came up with the idea, and actually got it manufactured.
*(Click on the arrows in upper right corner to see the collection of bodies, if you have the stomach for it.)
During our explore of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, we hiked down to Mosquito Beach. We decided to take the Mosquito Falls Trail down and the more direct trail back. While it was a longer and harder way to get down to the beach, I'm glad we did. These are a third cascade upstream from the main Mosquito Falls, and I thought a very pleasant cascade.
And yes, we did hear the name sake of this river buzzing around. Luckily, we took precautions.
Mosquito Creek, Alberta, Canada.
First snow, September 2003.
"Redux" means I'm revisiting selected pics from a previous series, in order to bring them some personal attention in the post processing that they missed the first time around.
Wow - Page One of Explore -- #3 now -- Thanks a lot !!
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An Eastern Phoebe from a fence post at Mill Pond. Not a rare sight there at all but I liked the green background surrounding him. This one stopped its exuberant tail pumping just long enough for me to grab a shot. Great birds to have around for helping to control insect pests.
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