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Post by Coolkat on Nov 21, 2017 18:45:38 GMT -8
Yes, and thanks for the correction. I corrected my post. I'm often responsible for leaving out words when I type. I think them but the words don't seem to travel all the way from my brain to the tips of my fingers. It's bad enough that I have to stop re-read every post I make but it still doesn't always work as my brain sometimes fill in the words as I read them.
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Post by daveb on Nov 22, 2017 9:21:24 GMT -8
Ok, now I'm officially jealous of the spiders you guys have in your areas. Nothing that cool near me that I know of. It took me 50 years to notice these things. lol Nice one Zeke! The assortment of colors of these things is amazing. Make me realize I have such little knowledge of nature's scheme of things.
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Post by foxalo on Nov 22, 2017 9:45:02 GMT -8
daveb I notice a lot more as I'm getting older. I have several field guides on hand at home. If I can't find it in one them, I go to the internet. The South has some really crazy looking bugs, so it's fun learning what they are and helping others do the same.
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Post by rebeccad on Nov 22, 2017 11:48:01 GMT -8
Ok, now I'm officially jealous of the spiders you guys have in your areas. Nothing that cool near me that I know of. That's what I was thinking.
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Post by davesenesac on Dec 8, 2017 8:15:42 GMT -8
3800x5300 pixels 1 frame 11 image focus stack blend A6000 60mm, extension tubeI had not spent any time looking at posts in this thread but can see some of you are making some fine images. Cloudwalkers Cecropia Moth (2011) image is particularly superb. It has so much depth of field I'm wondering if it is a focus stack blend? For those interested in more serious work, this is your best web resource and guide:
www.photomacrography.net/forum/
I've taken few images of insects because they usually move around. Also until the recent decade when focus stacking arose, depth of field on small subjects was a limitation. Last year I did photograph this butterfly on a flower because it was still after chilly night. The text below is copied from my below web page.
3800x5300 pixels 1 frame 11 image focus stack blend A6000 60mm, extension tube
www.davidsenesac.com/2016_Trip_Chronicles/spring_2016-9.html
enlarged vertical slice view www.davidsenesac.com/2016_Trip_Chronicles/PO09924-34e.jpg
My first subject was a broadleaf lupine, lupinus latifolius, where a Lorquin's admiral butterfly, limenitis lorquini, with a partially missing wing was immobile in the cool of morning sleeping hanging down on a lupine flower. Some distance away, I set up the appropriate gear with my camera 60mm plus extension tube on Benbo Trekker for a mug shot close-up then slowly carefully inched closer and closer. Nicely the subject remained quietly still. Possibly now slightly awake but too cool and groggy to do anything as long as I didn't make any gross movements or noise.
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Post by desert dweller on Dec 13, 2017 8:16:27 GMT -8
Just a plain ol' grasshopper eating an orange.
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Post by JiminMD on May 26, 2018 5:13:24 GMT -8
The hatching of the cicadas is a pretty sure sign that Summer has slouched its way into Maryland...
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Post by foxalo on May 26, 2018 5:58:40 GMT -8
JiminMD I'm trying to figure out what's going on with this picture. So many possible captions. Did it just emerge from its shell? Is it trying to hide the evidence by knocking it down or eating it? Is it trying to wake his buddy up? Is it wishing it was back in the shell after getting a taste of the outside world? My kids used to collect the shells off trees by our church in Iowa.
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Post by JiminMD on May 31, 2018 14:35:18 GMT -8
A Giant Leopard Moth decided to visit my daughter's Taekwondo class today.
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Post by k9education on Jun 3, 2018 0:00:05 GMT -8
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Post by k9education on Jun 23, 2018 12:12:33 GMT -8
Can anyone ID this one for me? Those are pincers on the rear end.
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Post by JiminMD on Jun 23, 2018 12:17:17 GMT -8
Earwig of some kind?
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Post by foxalo on Jun 23, 2018 13:13:34 GMT -8
My best guess, from looking through my insect field guide, is that it's an ebony boghaunter. If not that, it's some sort of dragonfly or damselfly. Is it solid black? Green eyes?
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jun 25, 2018 6:03:32 GMT -8
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jun 25, 2018 6:04:47 GMT -8
Can anyone ID this one for me? Those are pincers on the rear end. I'm guessing robber fly.
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