Tag: insect
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Day 4: Not Flowers!
Very few Macro Week posts tend to be of anything other than flowers and to be honest, I am slowly running out of flowers and will probably start revisiting some in hopefully creative ways. Anyway, this is a hoverfly which I was lucky enough to photograph with the eyes in focus. It seems like a…
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Day 5: Unnoticed.
I also didn’t notice the small bug on the stalk when taking the photo and truthfully, if I hadn’t spotted it in Lightroom I wouldn’t have posted the photo. I think it gives a second element to an otherwise ordinary flower photo. I wish I had focused on it a little better, perhaps by lifting my camera to make…
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Day 3: Just.
Pretty lucky with this shot. It isnt that obvious but the moth is actually about to take off. It was obviously accidental and I’m especially lucky with the right comb being in focus. Sadly the scene isnt very exciting so the photo looks quite bland.
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Day 2: Stay or Leave.
I was really looking forward to august since weve had a swarm of butterflies around our buddleia bush last year. I checked up on it every other day for a month and thebest I could catch was this… and it’s not even on that plant. Any lepidopterers on here know anything about this years butterfly…
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Day 3: A Bug’s Life.
2nd of 4 rose photos this Macro Week. The small size of the bug I think actually adds to the delicacy of the rose.
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Day 3: Aphid.
Unfortunately artificial lighting but by this point it got quite dark so I wouldn’t be able to snap this in natural light. Reminds me of macro scenes from old documentaries where studios weren’t as elaborate as today and black backgrounds were OK.
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I hate spiders.
Slowly getting over irrational fears. This one is perfectly rational though, I mean… SPIDERS! This one I could handle though, a whole 1cm of spider! Needed some practice in insect macro in preparation for my formica rufa documentary and luckily got the mandibles in focus here.
Maks Swiderek 