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Speckled bush cricket (a young larva) after a walk through the flower of a evening primrose. Then she cleaned the feelers of the pollen. These are pulled several times with the help of the forefoot through the "mouth".
Punktierte Zartschrecke (eine junge Larve) nach einer Wanderung durch die Blüte einer Nachtkerze. Danach hat sie die Fühler vom Blütenstaub gereinigt. Dabei werden diese mehrfach mit Hilfe der Vorderfüße durch den "Mund" gezogen.
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The Beachcomber or ‘Stone Me’ and Others
I have over the years come across a few of these stone characters, and not only confined to the East Coast of England where I found the majority. They have been discovered in The States, France and Kent. A bit of a random order I know. Some have come home with me but in the main I have left them in situ. No stones were harmed in the making of these images and the ones who did come home did it willingly.
There has been a development, I have noticed faces looking at me embedded in other materials. I know, a bit left field. But I thought they needed to be identified. I haven’t yet seen any walls with ears but you never know. Is ‘Big Brother’ still watching?
My first digital camera ... I think the sensor was 2 or 3 megapixels. :)
Costa da Caparica, Portugal
my first Bluethroat in the reeds. Far away, really far. But it´s ok for me. Humid air, 700mm, MFT-Sensor and cropped to 50%.
Gawdy Sensor Ship
Plenty of sensors on this one including those ostentatious radars, a spinny round thing and a non-spinny round thing. All a little overblown?
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The incredible combination of a modern small smartphone sensor from a 3x camera module (Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra) in combination with Lightrooms AI denoise feature (or the one from Camera RAW in Photoshop or Bridge)
Just look at the parasols in the background
It is late December and a dark, foggy day anyway. The camera's 10MP sensor (though manufactured by Kodak) has always been criticised for its capricious colour rendition. Myself, I don't feel at home in the world of colour and most of my work is in monochrome. However, given that the light is weak, I thought it was alright to try colour (lens is the collapsible Elmar 2.8/50).
AKA Pohjanmesisieni (fin).
Taken with Canon nFD 200mm F2.8 / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
No Sensor Ship
No sensors or modern equipment showing on this one
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オリンパス : 街拍 : 45mm f/1.8
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I'm just learning astrophotography stuff (that's my disclaimer) :) This lake is close to the city, so there's plenty of light pollution, as you can see from the clouds exiting on the left. I have other versions without the clouds but just thought they added some interest. This camera has had the internal IR filter removed to allow red light from emission nebula to come through to the sensor. If you look closely, you can see stars reflected in the lake. In person this was vivid and I wish I could have captured it. Beautiful night.
I like the color in this one. I think jumping the ISO to 4000 helped and with a full-frame it's easier to get away with that. 4000 on a crop-sensor is too noisy to work with. In a rush I accidentally cooked the lower corners a little too much, thus creating the purple haze. Just imagine that as a black shaded vignette.
This was my first attempt at a combined 4 hour exposure. The seeing was average, and got increasing worse, with clouds in the middle, my camera ran out of battery... always learning. It's the first time I even captured this though. Hoping to get more detail in the future!
Modified Nikon D750 (sensor filter removed)
Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 with TC-14: 280mm f/4
Optlong L-Pro filter, LXD75 mount
46x90" iso800 shots stacked with DeepSkyStacker, processed in Ps & Lr
spring waterfall
taken with a Olympus camedia 3040Z from year 2000
this is a advanced point and shot camera with 3.3 mega pixels and a fantastic old CCD sensor that produces film like images
More 300mm 2.8 goodness.
shot in June, Washington. the Olympics.
god my sensor needs a serious cleanup.
For the Macro Mondays Theme: "Photography Gear"
WARNING: Don't try this at home!!!
Note: No real harm was done and the sensor and camera survived the (photoshop) experiment without any scratch or (water)damage 😉 Thanks for your concerns...
Thank you very much for your time, faves and comments. It's much appreciated.
Happy Macro Mondays
Christmas Day Brunch, 12/25/2022, Nashville, TN
Leica Camera AG M Monochrom
Canon 35mm f2.0 LTM
ƒ/2.0 1/3000 640
Taken with the assistance of a Camtraptions camera trap and remote PIR sensor.
Illumination provided by Hahnel Modus 600 RT speedlights mounted on MagMod MagRings with diffusers.
It has been an amazing week in Vancouver for photography. This is I think my favourite. It was with my 6D and a very old 28-80mm Canon lens and a variable ND filter. I got this lens I think in 1995 with the last non digital SLR camera i ever brought. It always has and is still one of my favourite lens in the bag. Strangely enough it produces better results on a digital sensor than on 35mm film which it was designed for. If you are a Canon user and see one of these lens in a second had shop get it you will love it.
These photographs document the platform area at Starnberg station, not the main station building. The visible structure consists primarily of historic iron columns and beams that remain in active use but show clear signs of aging: corrosion, flaking paint, and uneven maintenance. What was once a coherent architectural system has become a fragmented, utilitarian framework.
The original platform roofs are completely gone. In their place, the iron skeleton stands exposed to weather and light. Rather than being restored, the structure has been stabilized through added construction: scaffolding, bracing elements, and protective netting that cut across the original geometry. This creates a layered visual language of old infrastructure and temporary reinforcement.
A newer canopy appears only in selected areas, mainly above stair access points. This roof is made of corrugated sheet metal (Wellblech) and serves a purely functional role. It offers basic protection but no architectural continuity with the historic structure. Large sections of the platforms remain open.
The site reflects the character of a “lost place” in operation. It is neither fully preserved nor abandoned. Ongoing disputes between heritage protection (Denkmalschutz), ownership responsibilities, and questions of funding for repair and upkeep have left the platforms in a state of visual and structural limbo. The result is an environment where historical fabric survives, but without clear restoration strategy.
Access is partially restricted through fenced zones and controlled pathways. This affects circulation and accessibility, including limited or indirect wheelchair access. The station continues to function, yet the platform space feels provisional — maintained just enough to operate, but not enough to recover its former architectural identity.
From a photographic perspective, the focus lies on the exposed iron framework, the absence of the original roof, and the contrast between historic construction and pragmatic modern additions. The images document a transitional state: a working railway platform that visually reads as a relic.
There was a potential of a very colorful sky this evening ... but alas no grand slam of a sky resulted here at least on the east side of Baltimore. It was a very long day at work so it was good that I was too tired to head off to a pretty spot for sunset as it turned out to be not so colorful.
So just like baseball, taking long exposures needs practice, so where better to go than five minutes from my door to the local school and baseball field. Been wanting to take a long exposure with a ball field anyway, so a couple minutes behind the lens after a long day felt like the thing to do.
I took one shot with the 9 Stop ND at f/20, and the histogram looked well at 240 seconds. While taking that shot I got the idea to "fill the bases" for the next long exposure. As it was getting darker I reduced to f/11 for the same 240 seconds, and then ran out to each base and stood there for about 60 seconds each counting in my head and posing at the base creating a ghost runner. This was all done in this one 240 second capture. I ran so fast between the bases you could not see me ... actually I walked quickly, still being invisible to the sensor.
So it was a grand slam sunset after all ;))
When I explained this capture to Ms. Krach, see just wanted to know when I got home if anyone we knew saw me at the bases posing like an idiot, shaking her head.
After a string of 4 clear nights in late March, it's been a long time since we have had a stretch of clear moonless nights. So no astrophotography for me…
In the meantime, I had upgraded one of my astro cameras to a new camera known as the ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro. This is a mono camera based on a new generation of larger APS-C size sensors. It offers much higher resolution, a full 16-bits of dynamic range, outstanding noise characteristics, and a much deeper well capacity (which means I can overexpose bright areas of the image - stars - much more before I saturate the sensor). This was also a bigger and heavier camera and I needed to rework my rig to balance things out. I have been eager to test this out.
Recently I had that chance. Choosing Messier 63 - the Sunflower Galaxy as my target I took over 15 hours of exposures through Luminesce, Red, Green, Blue and Hydrogen-Alpha filters over the nights of May 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th. I thought I had clear nights but it turns out that thin clouds passed through on EVERY night - enough cloud to mess-up my exposures but not enough to shut things down. I inspected every single frame and I ended up throwing out 5 HOURS of data due to "Cloud Pollution". I got to tell you - that HURTS.
So about our Target…
I have captured M63 before and I wanted to see what difference I could make with a new camera and a bit more experience under my belt. I am very pleased with the result of my first effort with this camera. Good detail, excellent color.
Located 29.3 Million Light Years away, this is what Wikipedia has to say about M63:
Messier 63 or M63, also known as NGC 5055 or the seldom-used Sunflower Galaxy,[6] is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion stars.[7] M63 was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, then later verified by his colleague Charles Messier on June 14, 1779.[6] The galaxy became listed as object 63 in the Messier Catalogue. In the mid-19th century, Anglo-Irish astronomer Lord Rosse identified spiral structures within the galaxy, making this one of the first galaxies in which such structure was identified.[8]
The shape or morphology of this galaxy has a classification of SAbc,[5] indicating a spiral form with no central bar feature (SA) and moderate to loosely wound arms (bc). There is a general lack of large-scale continuous spiral structure in visible light, so it is considered a flocculent galaxy. However, when observed in the near infrared, a symmetric, two-arm structure is seen. Each arm wraps 150° around the galaxy and extends out to 13,000 light-years (4,000 parsecs) from the nucleus.[9]
M63 is a weakly active galaxy with a LINER nucleus – short for 'low-ionization nuclear emission-line region'. This displays as an unresolved source at the galactic nucleus that is cloaked in a diffuse emission. The latter is extended along a position angle of 110° relative to the north celestial pole, and both soft X-rays and hydrogen (H-alpha) emission can be observed coming from along nearly the same direction.[10] The existence of a super massive black hole (SMBH) at the nucleus is uncertain; if it does exist, then the mass is estimated as (8.5±1.9)×108 M☉,[11] or around 850 million times the mass of the Sun.
Here is the detail around this image:
*Number of frames is after bad or questionable frames were culled.
71 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II L Filter
81 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, 0 gain, ZWO Gen II R Filter
67 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II G Filter
79 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II B Filter
27 x 300 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, Astronomiks 6nm Ha Filter
Total of 9.7 hours
25 Darks at 300 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
50 Darks at 90 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 Dark Flats at Flat exposure times, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 R Flats
30 G Flats
30 B Flats
30 L Flats
30 Ha Flats
Capture Hardware:
Scope: Astrophysics 130mm Starfire F/8.35 APO refractor
Guide Scope: Televue 76mm Doublet
Camera: ZWO AS2600mm-pro with ZWO 7x36 Filter wheel with ZWO LRGB filter set,
and Astronomiks 6nm Narrowband filter set
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290Mini
Focus Motor: Pegasus Astro Focus Cube 2
Camera Rotator: Pegasus Astro Falcon
Mount: Ioptron CEM60
Polar Alignment: Polemaster camera
Software:
Capture Software: PHD2 Guider, Sequence Generator Pro controller
Image Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop - assisted by Coffee, extensive processing indecision and second guessing, editor regret and much swearing…..
No 1-A Folding Pocket Kodak Special - Model D (1910)
The Sony α6000 (model ILCE-6000) is a digital camera announced 12 February 2014. It is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, which has a smaller body form factor than a traditional DSLR while retaining the sensor size and features of an APS-C-sized model.
My KAP (Kite Aerial System) for the Nokia N8 (and probably other Symbian devices).
A rig is suspended on the line of a kite, and it holds an N8 phone (with a 12MP camera sensor). This phone can send live video to another N8 on the ground, which in turn controls the direction of the camera with accelerometers (you just tilt your phone to change the camera orientation).
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Meu sistema de Fotografia Aerea com Pipa para o celular Nokia N8 (e provavelmente outros aparelhos Symbian).
Um berço, contendo um celular N8 (c/ câmera de 12MP) é preso à linha de uma pipa. O celular transmite vídeo em tempo real para outro N8 no chão, que por sua vez controla a direção da câmera através de acelerômetros (ou seja, basta mover o celular e a inclinação dele fará a câmera na pipa mover-se também).