A Seat on the Edge, Pt. 2 - _TNY_4675
The spring of 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden was extremely slow to get going with temps dropping below freezing during the night well past the middle of May.
One one of the first days with at least slightly warmer weather, I went for a walk to the Gullringskärret Nature Reserve which is within walking distance of my house.
"Gullringskärret" translates to "gold ring marsh" and it's is an interesting biotope which combines spruce forest with a marsh. In there, the wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) were still in bloom and it was cold enough that the heat from my eye fogged the viewfinder if I looked through it long enough, but I spotted this tiny blue gem on the edge of a petal on one of the wood anemones.
It is a Dasytes caeruleus beetle, a member of the soft-winged flower beetles, Melyridae.
I don't know if it was the low temp or what, but it stayed very still for me so I managed to take three shots and combine into one for added depth of field.
Taken using the Canon MP-E65mm at 1.8:1 magnification.
Part 1 is three exposures focus-stacked into one photo here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/49924315577/
A Seat on the Edge, Pt. 2 - _TNY_4675
The spring of 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden was extremely slow to get going with temps dropping below freezing during the night well past the middle of May.
One one of the first days with at least slightly warmer weather, I went for a walk to the Gullringskärret Nature Reserve which is within walking distance of my house.
"Gullringskärret" translates to "gold ring marsh" and it's is an interesting biotope which combines spruce forest with a marsh. In there, the wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) were still in bloom and it was cold enough that the heat from my eye fogged the viewfinder if I looked through it long enough, but I spotted this tiny blue gem on the edge of a petal on one of the wood anemones.
It is a Dasytes caeruleus beetle, a member of the soft-winged flower beetles, Melyridae.
I don't know if it was the low temp or what, but it stayed very still for me so I managed to take three shots and combine into one for added depth of field.
Taken using the Canon MP-E65mm at 1.8:1 magnification.
Part 1 is three exposures focus-stacked into one photo here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/49924315577/