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[quote="rjlittlefield He lists it as "Sundowner Moth ( Sphingomorpha chlorea )". --Rik[/quote] That was scary :cry: . I had ID'd it earlier as in the Family Noctuidae (Owlet moths) and not a Hawk Moth. But the genus name suggest a Hawk Moth (Hawk moths are in the Family Sphingidae). However checking...

Yes, beautiful colours and pattern Ken: Bug Guide is for NA, this is a South African moth. If this was from NA I would say something in the Noctuidae, perhaps in the Hypeninae - but these are pretty wild guesses, I'm more confident in saying it's not a Hawk Moth (this also a risky statement). Lepido...

Nikon D70, 200mm, 1/320sec, f16. June 2005
Epitheca canis, male.
Top: full frame
Bottom: cropped.
I just like the wing movement that the flash failed to stop.

Ken Ramos wrote: and also, I might add, taken with a camera and camera lens designed and working working together, to produce such an image.

Yikes What about an image taken with a camera
and a microscope objective on a bellows or extension tubes These were not designed to work together, methinks.

Peter: The Manfrotto Bogen is about $90.00. The Proxxon about $100.
Remember that the Manfrotto moves in only 1 axis, the Proxxon moves in 2 axes.

Maybe I'm a bit out of topic but do you know Bogen / Manfrotto 3419 Micro Positioning Plate ? I read somewhere that it moves 1.25 mm for a turn. I plan to buy this gear to try picture stacking, to move my subject. What is your opinion? Have not used that rail. Have used one from RRS and one from Ki...

Ted Chappell wrote: how do you light a subject like that? Ted

very simple set-up: SEE HERE

Beautiful photos. For the dragonfly, 3 families of parasitic mites
(Hydrachnida) are found on dragonflies with at least 1 genus in each family:
Arrenuridae - Arrenurus spp.
Hydryphantidae - Hydraphantes spp.
Limnocharidae - Limnochares spp.

I purchased a Proxxon table based on this post by Wim: CLICK HERE But I have set it up in reverse of Wim's set-up; I will use the short Y-axis to move the subject forward. Received my Proxxon milling table yesterday and spent part of today making adjustments for it to fit my current set-up. My inter...

I mount everything on a Really Right Stuff Camera Bar.
WEB PAGE HERE

The subject can then be moved toward the camera in a straight line:
my set-up HERE

Correct. I know it as British Grenadier.
It is, of course, a lichen Cladonia cristatella and only about 20 mm tall (short!)

Certainly wasn't named after a fish

Pleased to hear that, my experience has been the opposite (but not with these companies). It took weeks and weeks (and lots of phone calls) for Nikon and a large Toronto camera store to replace a faulty digital SLR body.

In the top picture I can see the tip of the male's abdomen clasping on the outside of the females; i.e. the female's tip entirely encircled by the male's.