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From my Secret Stash - _TNY_5459S6

When I am at my mother's summer house at Saltarö in the inner Stockholm archipelago and can't find anything interesting to shoot, I have discovered that she keeps a nice stash outside the house. It turns out that several species of chafers - like this marbled rose chafer (Protaetia marmorata) - manage to pick up the faint smell of decomposing fruit and vegetables and find their way inside.

 

This means I can (often) just pop the lid and pick one up for a little photo session. The beetle pictured here was unusually docile and after placing it on a piece of wood it stayed still and allowed me to complete this six exposure focus stack at 1:1 magnification.

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Uploaded on July 27, 2020
Taken on June 13, 2020