An amazing photo Iainp. Beautiful the way the beads of water are so spherical. Is this in B&W or was it just a very gray day?

Thanks Jim. I didn`t even think about the jolt aspect of the flash....good to know.

I`ll eat it here and just the way it is. The ants (genus Lasius) were mating again last night and this queen never made it to the wedding. This was the last picture the flash worked on. After this pic, the flash would no longer fire. Everything looked fine, just the bulb would not fire. Are the bulb...

larger picture is much better. Very beautiful miss Gecko.

The lighting plays very well on the surface textures IMO. Each seed pod has a slighty different angle also. Like the right pod is facing towards the light, the other two are facing slighty away.

What a great capture. A thought.......do they (the fly) use their colors to trick their predators or the pray . I always thought it was to trick the predators.

I decided to take the picture and use Auto color balance (Paint Shop Pro) on it and it did have an impact on the colors. The colors do seem to be off and this third pic does look more natural. Is my white Balance off because of the tissue? The Tissue is not a pure white, sorta like off white. I beli...

The colors are correct (it is kinda mono colored) and I did use a top mounted 430Ex with two layers of tissue for diffusion (just folded around the head). I will agree, the shadows would be nice if they were gone or at a better angle. What I need to do is get my off camera cord and try to position t...

An Excellent stack laurie. Great job on a very hairy subject.

Very Cool

And most of the time, it pays to be the bigger one when it comes to being eaten. You can see the victims eyes in the second picture. Canon 400D, Canon100mm Macro, flash, 25% crop F/10 ISO100 1/200sec http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/51_JumpVJump1_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/fo...

WOW, Great pictures. I love the colors. Is this Rhytidoponera metallica, The green-Headed Ant ?

I love Science.....The name of something usually tells almost the whole story about the subject. very nice NU.

I like the background color of the banana. Nice crisp photos. What I see the flies saying is "Keep your abdomen out of my face please"

That is amazing how it goes from white to black. Great information!