Excellent series Brian!
I particularly like pic2. You've really managed to capture that look of determined intent that I've so often noticed as they clamber around their micro environment - it always brings a smile to my face.
Bruce
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- Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:17 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Globular springtails
- Replies: 7
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- Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:09 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Some Quinault Rain Forest close-ups
- Replies: 10
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- Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:52 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: My pet hoverfly
- Replies: 6
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- Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:47 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Snail-killing Fly
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2001
Thanks Harold. Your comment about the size of the halteres prompted me to do a spot of Googling to find out a bit more about them. I'd assumed that they pretty much acted as simple counter weights, however it turns out that there's much, much more to them than I'd imagined - isn't that always the wa...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:37 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Snail-killing Fly
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Snail-killing Fly
One of the Snail-killing flies (Sciomyzidae) - thought to be Psacadina verbekei . I just love the head and faces on these flies This is a Zerene Stacker stack of 4 hand-held shots taken with my Nikon D300 + 105mm macro lens at 1:1. Settings: ISO200. Manual exposure: 1/250s at f/16. Manual flash (pop...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:08 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: A rather damp midge
- Replies: 6
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- Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:47 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Unhappy harvestman
- Replies: 6
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- Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:32 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Unhappy harvestman
- Replies: 6
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Thanks Ken :D . Your comments prompted me to do a little research (aka Googling) and it seems your instinct is right on the money. From what I read harvestmen have been around for over 400 million years and have remained largely unchanged for a significant part of that time. I quite liked this pic a...
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Unhappy harvestman
- Replies: 6
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Unhappy harvestman
A male harvestman Dicranopalpus ramosus - Please check scale bar to get an idea of size. I love the look of these odd looking characters and they are so accommodating too, rarely if ever running away when you poke a lens at them. In my experience it's quite unusual to see their pedipalps tucked unde...
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:21 pm
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Colourful ice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4125
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:16 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Cicada
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5119
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:02 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Crab Spiders "R" Us, part 2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8633
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:43 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Hop, step and jump
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2063
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
- Topic: How many pixels wide is your monitor? (Poll closed now.)
- Replies: 16
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- Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:49 pm
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Mating of the Opilione
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3418