There were a number of these flying about at the Richard Pohl Memorial Preserve at Ames High Prairie, Ames, Iowa. I visited this as part of the 2011 BugGuide gathering. I recently updated the processing of the images. HFDF!

Holcocephala species

bugguide.net/node/view/25571

Either:

Holcocephala abdominalis

bugguide.net/node/view/132947

or the very similar

Holcocephala fusca

bugguide.net/node/view/68478

tiny fungi

pieris, viburnum and tea olive in red murano glass.

Desert woolstar (thanks to Aussieinusa for the ID). These are very small flowers--perhaps a half inch in diameter.

Busy Least Skipper butterfly sipping nectar from a Birdsfoot Trefoil floret. Locally common. Due to its weak flight pattern and tiny size, it's easy to mistakenly identify it as a moth.

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Stylidium

Trigger-plant

About ½ the size of the bigger ones.

I found the cutest tiny bridge in Asheville NC outside of the Grove Park Inn (one of my favorite places ever) I can't wait to go back and play!

I've also been playing with my NEW Florabella textures, so very dreamy, thank you Shana!

A tiny hearing aid battery. It's 4-5mm in diameter.

Not a great photo, or I don't think so, but the best of a bad bunch. :(

Maybe view large, but thank you for your favourites. :)

2010 - Day 164. June 13, 2010.

Daily Shoot - Challenge: Invent your own filter! Shoot through something translucent or transparent. Make a photo with a unique look.

It rained all night, so everything in the garden was covered in tiny drops of water. I got hung up on the 'shoot through something translucent or transparent' part of the challenge and didn't really think about the 'invent your own filter' part. I wanted to shoot the garden through the drops. That I accomplished, but what I've really created is a lens, not a filter. In any event, I'm very happy with the shot. For once it was still enough to use my macro lens outdoors and I was able to capture many tiny landscapes.

Tiny for Macro Mondays

Tiny lighthouse (actually not functioning as one) at Oostmahorn, The Netherlands, about half an hour, 45 minutes before sunrise.

Budgie chick - hatched 27. December

Zar Bar's Closet

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Un minuscule champignon qui ne pousse que sur les feuilles mortes. / A tiny mushroom that grows only on dead leaves.

Better seen LARGE On Black

This tiny mosquito which is around 2-3mm long is more challenging to shoot than the jumping spiders because it keeps on flying from one leaf to another. Here I shot him under a leaf where he thought to be a safe place to hide.

This was taken with the 18-55mm reversed lens and a new DYI diffuser. Sometimes it is not practical to use the DYI diffuser that I made last time coz it´s too big and scares the insects. About the lenses, I still prefer to use the 18-55mm than the 28mm or 50mm prime lens because it´s easier to focus and adjust to get the necessary magnification.

This tiny Wasp stayed still long enough for just one quick shot. It was less than 5 mm long. One of the Potter Wasps, I think, and possibly a young one.

Must be up there with the smallest snail I've seen, the shell is barely 1mm across. I have no clue on ID, anyone have any ideas?

I have a sure-fire jumping spider spot at my mother-in-law's. The side of her garage always have a bunch of Attulus terebratus jumpers in varying sizes running around looking for prey.

This one had found and caught what I think is (was?) an aphid and was happily munching away at it when I snuck closer.

This was taken at 4.3:1 magnification which is about as high as I can go with the 5Ds as the huge megapixel count means any further magnification will yield little further detail because of visible diffraction.

Macro Mondays - 'Less Than an Inch'

A tiny Icicle formation on the shed this afternoon after all the snow in the UK. HMM Everyone!

I'm not known for my bird photography, so I was happy to capture this little beauty doing a mid-air dance waiting its turn at the feeder. This was taken at my in-laws house this summer in western Montana. I took this with a 100mm macro lens through a sliding glass door. I could have sat there all day and taken pictures of these tiny birds.

on the Weeping Cypress Pine in the garden...

Summer Lawn Grass Flowers Outdoors Petals Blue Small Green Leaves

nicole dancing

This tiny bird was photographed near Andrews, North Carolina. See this, and more, on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.

My backyard has no grass. It’s mostly lichen, moss, ferns, and a multitude of other tiny little plants. If I could handle being on the ground....I can’t, bugs are icky....it would be a macro photography wonderland.

Trey and Megan bought this little guy for me. To give you a sense of scale, both of his ears together would be about the size of a grain of rice. Actually there's a grain of rice in the shadow of his butt if you want to view the picture at very big size and see for yourself.

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Fort Mason

San Francisco, California

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band

Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man

Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand

And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street

Handing tickets out for God

Turning back she just laughs

The boulevard is not that bad

Piano man he makes his stand

In the auditorium

Looking on she sings the songs

The words she knows, the tune she hums

But oh how it feels so real

Lying here with no one near

Only you and you can hear me

When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer, tiny dancer

Count the headlights on the highway

Lay me down in sheets of linen

You had a busy day today

Hold me closer, tiny dancer

Count the headlights on the highway

Lay me down in sheets of linen

You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band

Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man

Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand

And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

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first signs of spring - but only at a closer look.

Not sure what these very tiny buds are but liked that a narrow beam of morning sunlight was illuminating just a few of them. Handheld.

Photos from a quick morning visit to Pollinator Prairie. Rather cool, no butterflies so grabbed some of plants, insects, etc. Just saving more photos now that computer is working again. :) No need to comment.

One of those very tiny fungi that emerges out of the leaf litter on the woodland floor.

This is the first one of these I've been able to look at up close. This one is 300 square feet and sells for $72,000 or $240 per square foot which is a bit rich for my blood considering it doesn't even have air conditioning.

These are very tiny food products

I loved doing this! :D

Notice that they are all casting tiny mugs into the giant mug and reeling them in.

Beautiful things can be found in the bar ditches of Oklahoma.