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The branch of persimmon tree seems covered with snow , but these are scale insects , getting sugar from tree and producing wax shell. Scale insects are food for bird during winter.
Added the side wall and roof to the N scale bowling alley. I reduced the depth of the building by about 1/3 to make it fit on the layout. Of course, I have no idea where it will go.
It was smoking hot at the Martin Refuge in Mission Texas when I took this photo. Very uncomfortable but good news for photography as the hot conditions brought the birds in to ponds to drink. One of the highlights of our visit was this pair of scaled quails (male in the foreground, female in the background).
According to the Cornell Lab, scaled quails "live year-round in desert grasslands and shrublands of the Southwest, including open plains, hills, mesas, sagebrush, and pinyon-juniper woodlands up to about 7,000 feet elevation."
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Found at Wazee Lake Recreation Area in west central Wisconsin. Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found on oak sapling in oak/pine barrens habitat. There are a few oak saplings at this site infested with these scales.
Not familiar with the amount of damage these scales do. Could all that damage on the branch be due to this single scale? Or maybe some of the damage is from secondary fungal infection (see this page for more info)?
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie and plastic cup diffuser.
Sony A7III in electronic shutter and full frame mode
MJKZZ Ultra Rail
2 LEDs continuous lights
Raynox 250 as tube lens + Mitutoyo 50x 0.42
Magnification is about 31.25x
Step size is 1.25um
ISO 100, Shutter Speed = 0.5s
81 JPEG images
Zerene Stacking Software
Worth the scramble up the left-hand side to get to the upper reaches but care needed if it's wet and greasy, which it often is.
A close up of the scales of an Eastern Gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis), they are stained a muddy brown color from the snake spending the winter underground in its hibernaculum. Who knows, maybe this was the first day of the year that it climbed out from underneath the ground?
So many objects have a direct correlation above and below water, this pine cone reminds me of fish scales.
I'm happy with the end product of this image. This is a multi shot panorama of the Sydney Water Corporation offices at 1 Smith St Parramatta. I really like the building but it epitomises the issue I have with modern city design, that is the lack of human scale.
I have uploaded the full res images so you can click and see the lady walking past the building. Compare here to the size of the tower. Now the scale is a little warped as I have shot this pano from only about 20m away from the tower but it shows the conflict between humans and 15 or more storey towers.
Parramatta needs some more investigation as a shooting destination. I see myself here again soon.