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Haven't posted in a while

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...haven't posted since before my Amazon trip in late July. I took almost 2 thousand macro pics down there, but of course it is an overwhelming job to process them. As well, I got burnt out on macro for a month or so afterwards. In the meantime, here are a few from the past month or so around here locally (Nebraska).

As of yet unidentified Dragon

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The beauty of color


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Bow to the coming of fall

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Post by rjlittlefield »

Hey Ken, welcome back :!:

We shall eagerly await stories of the Amazon. In the meantime, thanks for posting these!

--Rik

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:lol: I really like that last photo, reminds me of how I feel some mornings. Yes, I too would like to see some Amazon macros, bet'cha got some really great shots. :D

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Post by beetleman »

Super shots Ken, and a welcome back also. When I first saw the beautiful dragonfly, I looked at your Avatar to see where you were located, I was thinking some exotic country, than I read Nebraska :shock: He is a really colorful fellow. I am holding my breath :oops:
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Amazon? :shock: WooHoo! :D There must be some really good stuff!
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It was quite a trip, don't even know how to begin telling the story as it would amount to a book's worth of info. The primary issue photography-wise was the near constant bad lighting. Many of my pics are darker than I would like or have more 'flash' than I would like. I wish I had more photographic experience before I left (only doing this for a year and a half) to deal with these situations.

I of course will be leaking Amazon pics out as I get them processed (my winter project), but here is a sneak peek at a couple views of one of the odders critters I found. I will have to look through my notes as to what this thing is called, buy my nickname for it is the 'fishing lure fly'. It was about 3 inches long and I guess they are quite rare in the area we stayed (near Iquitos, Peru).

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I probably won't post any more from the Amazon until I get a bunch processed; in the meantime I will just have to show some of the last months photos here in Nebraska, such as this one:


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Post by MacroLuv »

Kind a strange moth. :?: :!: :shock: Looks like a fish lure. :lol:
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Post by Erland R.N. »

Love your photo of the dragonfly, a male Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina).

cheers Erland

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Post by Gordon C. Snelling »

The beasty with the" tail" is a fulgorid plant hopper.

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Excellent -- a name for the beasty! I see somebody else posted one of these elsewhere -- see halfway down at http://entomology.unl.edu/lgh/ipm/log_2003.html . The tails are wax, it says there.

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Post by Moebius »

I found the beastie in a book while I was down in Peru. There they called it a "Red-spotted hopper", a fulgorid. I could not confirm this name via google.

Ken

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