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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-18-2011, 12:50 PM
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Ah, oh well. Very interesting insect none-the-less!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-18-2011, 11:18 AM
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WOW, now that is an interesting insect! A bee/wasp mimic hoverfly that also looks like a species of robber fly? Any head on pics :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-14-2011, 05:22 PM
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Its a beautiful 6-spotted tiger beetle :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-14-2011, 03:40 PM
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Yup, looks to be a sub-adult actually.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-11-2011, 06:19 PM
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Its a wheel bug :)
I used to have two giant millipedes as pets when i was a little kid :lol: I'll have to try and source one of the pictures of me holding it when I was like 10 :)
Thanks! Beautiful fly for sure, up there with horse flies IMO
Thanks :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-08-2011, 11:15 AM
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yup, I've seen a couple pictures of the exact same bug, all classified (roughly) as an ant mimicking assassin bug :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-05-2011, 10:46 AM
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The cutting off of the body parts was more or less intentional. I could have done a pano to include the wings, but that would have been WAY to much work for such little gain. Its not really the technical aspects I dislike of the photo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-03-2011, 12:39 PM
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Wish I could give you the specific ID though :)
I just found a dying, but absolutely beautiful hover fly which also mimics bee's. Its eyes are truly awesome with yellow and black stripes though.... really like nothing I've seen before in person! It has some issue's with its legs or something and refuses to fly so expect a stack soon :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-02-2011, 02:58 PM
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its a bee-mimicking hoverfly ;)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-30-2011, 11:25 AM
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Thats only because of the lights I used to illuminate the subject for the video :) It would have been very noisy without them.... they are "warm" hence the color shift
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-18-2011, 02:09 AM
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good stuff! Do you have a stacking setup yet?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-17-2011, 04:43 PM
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Is it the newer plastic version or the metal one?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-17-2011, 03:03 PM
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Your got one?!?!? Very cool..... which one did you get and for how much? What aperture was used? It might be worth testing for optimum aperture since I've heard a lot of sample variation exists. F/5.6 is best for some, ~F/6.3 for others, etc.
Quick size comparison for you guys that are not familiar with enlarging lenses
size comparison by yeatzee (now 17, but still learning), on Flickr
size comparison by yeatzee (now 17, but still learning), on Flickr
takumar 55mm vs. el nikkor 50mm (what I use 99% of the time for macro's, reversed) vs. my new componon 80mm I got for $10 (awaiting adapters still)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-14-2011, 07:22 AM
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yea I've always known them as garden spiders. I have one living maybe 6 inches outside my kitchen window with about a 3 foot web spanning across the entire window. She's our family pet, only we dont need to feed her :lol:
Anyways, velvet ant:
Velvet ant (wasp) by yeatzee (now 17, but still learning), on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-06-2011, 08:08 AM
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its a crane fly
Its not to bad, but it is very specialized. Only works for early morning stacks of living subjects or pictures of dead ones :) Remember, I used to exclusively shoot field macro's ;) Extension tubes and a flash is my bread and butter :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-31-2011, 12:00 AM
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Whose complaining?
^ how is that complaining? It was a helpful suggestion so everyone can view the image in all its "glory." Relax dude.....
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