Offline, some of us on the admin team have discussed reaching out to Tatyana, and I plan to do so. Robert's work is indeed a tremendous resource that we hope will remain. Also, today on Facebook, Tatyana mentioned a video lecture delivered by Robert a few years ago: Photographing Wild Alaska and Ja...

I was looking through the criteria for using larger lenses (e.g, telephoto or zoom) to achieve closeup images for this site and didn't really find any. Any thoughts on that might be helpful.

Marc

BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE: Fantastical image of slime mould encased in a raindrop among winners in close-up photography challenge. At least one photo captured with a 300mm lens… beautiful images! https://www.discoverwildlife.com/apple-news-ingest/close-up-photographer-of-the-year-challenge-water-winners

Nice article and images. I learned something. I guessed that was a legless lizard due to the scale pattern and face. There are 9 spp in the US.
https://wildlifeinformer.com/legless-lizard-species/

Very nice images. The distribution appears to be in colder climates (idigbio mapping). Appreciated the story too, always enhances the images.

A really nice series of images. Thanks for the descriptions. The extra details are nice to know!

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Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:31 am

Interesting and nicely done.

Thanks Macrero, it was a lot of fun putting it together and pleased that they came out well.

Something different ... Rik, please delete if not considered close-up images. This is a throwhback to my vertebrate zool days. I found the Bobcat skull ( Lynx rufus ) years ago and thought it would be interesting to photograph. The images are stacked. It's native to Canada, US and parts of Mexico ( ...

Number 2 is awesome!

I am not familiar with molds but found this one one of our pears. In doing a search online, this is something that looked close - Botrytis blight possibly “gray mold” , fungus Botrytis cinerea . I let it grow out for a few days and did a few stacks. Pear-Mold-5A-2024-03-21.jpg Pear-4-grey-mold-Final...

Very Sad to hear this

Appears to be an old world species. I don’t think I’ve seen this species before but similar to our swallowtails. Thanks for posting it.

Thanks for the comments Mark and Zook! In looking at one of the Jack-in-the=pulpit images (2nd one from the top, center), I noticed a small insect on an upper leaf. As I recall, the mosquitoes were very abundant that day. I’ve enlarged a copy below. Jack-in-Pulpit-4421-Dipteran-spp.jpg This is a lit...

Amazing images - very inspirational work !! I love the diversity and image quality.

I cannot comment about the Noflexar 60mm since I never tested/used/owned one. If it is any help, years ago I did my own digitizing of 36x24 mm color slides with Olympus E-M1 and E-M1 II and the Olympus 60 mm f/2.8 macro. I used a legacy slide duplicator as slide holder (without optics in the duplic...