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

Simply beautiful!

Bruce

Some of the best hand-held shots I've seen Brian - truly excellent.

Your flash diffusing technique is really effective - was this the coke can or have you developed on from that? OOI, were you able to support your body in any way - lean against a tree or similar?

Bruce

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...

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...

Extraordinary series of images Brian!

I'd always imagined you had an interesting garden as so many of your internet shots are located there.......so I was very interested to see this insect paradise for myself .

Bruce

Chris........and I'd heard that harvestmen were non-political .

Thanks Brian....and I'm right with you on the 'little person sitting in a mechanical digger' .

Bruce

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...

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...

Images to lose yourself in. An interesting experiment Brian with exceptionally pleasing results.

A friend of mine who's into scrying would just love these as full screen wallpaper.

Bruce:)

Really nice work. The first two pics have a real feeing of three dimensionality and weight to them - I really like them! It looks like quite a large insect (pics 1 and 2) - so what size are we looking at here Mark?

Bruce

Wow (picking jaw off chest) those last three natural light stacks are just stunning!

Btw, the green and brown crab spider (one of my favourite subjects) is a female Diaea dorsata.

Bruce:)

Interesting viewpoint on the harvestman Andy - the species in your original posting is Dicranopalpus ramosus btw.

Bruce

I know it'll be obvious and I'm gonna feel stupid when you tell me, but.....how do I enter my screen size poll data?

btw I have 24" at 1920px wide.

Bruce:)

Nice capture Ken - both parties in sharp focus and interesting viewpoint too.

....pic1 looks like a couple of bagpipes mating .

Bruce