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by zook
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:56 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Rio Bigal Reserve: Ecuador
Replies: 11
Views: 318

Re: Rio Bigal Reserve: Ecuador

Always good photos of interesting species.
by zook
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:54 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: A Few Carnivorous Plants
Replies: 4
Views: 259

Re: A Few Carnivorous Plants

Very interesting! Thank you for share.
by zook
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:51 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: posing...
Replies: 2
Views: 164

posing...

The Iphiclides Podalirius photo is from 2019. I wasn't happy with the result, but I knew the photo had potential. Some time has passed, the monitor and programs have improved, and so have my processing skills. This is a reprocessed photo. [attachment=0]DSCF3520 makro 2019.jpg[/attachment] X-T20; Mic...
by zook
Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:45 pm
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: red cicade
Replies: 4
Views: 338

Re: red cicade

Thank you both! They are not easy to find and record. In the first week of June, the oak forest is filled with an intense noise of thousands of individuals, but they are in the treetops. I happened to find this cicada at the edge of the forest, on a twig close to the ground.
by zook
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: red cicade
Replies: 4
Views: 338

red cicade

about 5cm long (with wings) red cicade (Tibicina haematodes)

X-T20; K&F concept adapter + NIKON Micro Nikkor 200mm; f11; 1/30; ISO800; tripod; natural light + MANFROTO Lumimuse LED3; five images stacked

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by zook
Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: waiting for spring
Replies: 1
Views: 393

waiting for spring

While I wait for the next season, I am posting an old shot of a small heather butterfly (Coenonimpha pamphilus).

ImageDSCF0706 makro 2022

X-T20; Micro Nikkor 200mm; 1/8; f11; ISO200; tripod; natural light.
by zook
Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:01 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: honey bee
Replies: 20
Views: 12513

Re: Sting

Very, very nice! =D>
by zook
Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:00 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Critter pix and cool lions
Replies: 7
Views: 3351

Re: Critter pix and cool lions

For grasshoppers: is it only a pattern or a physical feature... something like the joints between the plates of the skeleton?
by zook
Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:52 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Of birth, death and everything in between!
Replies: 4
Views: 5329

Re: Of birth, death and everything in between!

Nice series... a good soft light on the ladybug exoskeleton!
by zook
Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:41 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: microworld
Replies: 6
Views: 2569

Re: microworld

Thank you for your comments!
The same mushrooms and shooting parameters, different POV, 32 shots stacked.

ImageDSCF9059_91 fungi 2023
by zook
Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:48 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: microworld
Replies: 6
Views: 2569

microworld

57 composite shots for these 12-15mm tall mushrooms...
X-T4; tc 1.4x + XF 80mm macro; 1/15; f5.6; ISO 200; tripod; natural light.

ImageDSCF8992_9049 fungi 2023
by zook
Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:46 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: this year's damselflies
Replies: 7
Views: 2418

Re: this year's damselflies

Thank you all, for the comments!
by zook
Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:44 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Wolves at the door
Replies: 3
Views: 2437

Re: Wolves at the door

Nice series, great shots!
by zook
Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:59 pm
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: this year's damselflies
Replies: 7
Views: 2418

Re: this year's damselflies

Thank you!
by zook
Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: this year's damselflies
Replies: 7
Views: 2418

this year's damselflies

Ischnura elegans... X-T20 + Micro Nikkor 200mm; 1/10; f11; ISO200; tripod; natural morning light + NANLITE Litolite 5 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53161492782_18ed2a8a0b_b.jpg DSCF5808 makro 2023 Ischnura elegans... young female, without one leg, probably the result of a conflict with a preda...