Midge face

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:25 pm

In our rainy 38 degree F Pacific Northwest one of the few insects you can always count on finding outside are the ubiquitous midges. I find the antenna and eyes great to look at, although some are really small. This one had antenna a little different from the usual ones I found.

This was photographed at a 16X magnification. The width of the head shown in the picture measures .63mm.

Nikon 10/0.25 M-Plan objective on bellows, Nikon D200 camera

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:44 pm

Truly stunning Charlie. I like everything about it. The composition, color, subject reinforce each other and make this a killer image. A good way to go into the New Year.

Irwin

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:51 pm

Sort of a mood lifting photo for a cold, dreary, rainy, North Carolina day there Charlie.

Those eyes sort of remind me of a satchel of brass bee bees wrapped around its head. Yes when all else fails there is always the midge but of course I say that with an up and across stream presentation.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:52 pm

Great!

It looks like a jewellery.

puzzledpaul · Post by **puzzledpaul** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:02 pm

Wholeheartedly agree with previous comments - a superb pic.

pp

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:05 pm

Hark! Was that the sound of the bar, being raised yet another notch?

Very nice, Charlie. Compositions, textures, sharpness -- wonderful!

There is one small element I find distracting -- what are those two little black things hovering in air between/behind the antennae?

--Rik

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:03 pm

Thanks all!

Rik... I agree. I looked at that a few times thinking I should remove it but left it in. I had run the stack all the way back, but it looked terrible when combined... too "busy". . So I decided to just do the area I thought was most interesting and worked well together... the face, antenna and legs. These midges are sort of "hump-backed", and the two lines and dark spot are a couple of hairs and part of the darker "hump"" that are just starting to come into focus. So I did what I should have done it the first place.... here it is:

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:44 pm

Wow!

--Rik

jmlphoto · Post by **jmlphoto** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:55 am

you are the master, another awesome shot.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:25 am

An excellent photo Charles. You can just stare at them and see all the amazing features. The eyes look like tiny pearls and I love the details in the antennae sockets.