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Blue Tiger Butterfly close up and personal.
5D Mk III, 16-35 reversed,ISO 200; F4, 1/200 with flash
Day 161|14-15
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Finally a bug that doesn't look like it is going to eat your head off.
5D Mk III; 16-35 reversed; ISO 200; F4; 1/200 with flash
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Day 160|14-15
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A Jack Jumper Ant (12 mm long) being checked out by what I describe as a Crane Fly.
5D Mk III; 16-35 reversed; ISO 200, F4, 1/200 with flash
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Day 159|14-15
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This little brown wolf spider (14 mm long) does not use a web to catch it's prey, they violently hunt it down using their strong bodies and sharp eyesight.
5D Mk III; 16-35 reversed; ISO 200; 1/200; F4
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Day 158|14-15
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Let's have a picnic, me first.
I just love this image. Perhaps my favourite in 158 days.
Colourful, lots happening and a completely different world that we rarely see. There's even a really small black mite on the spiders leg.
Picnic Time. 5D MkIII, 16-35 F4 reversed, ISO 200 with flash, 1/40
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Day 157|14-15
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The common mud-dauber wasp - Sceliphron formosum, a bit closer than usual. These guys like to keep to themselves and build nests made of mud.
The head of the wasp is 4.5 mm across. I used a reverse ring on my lens to turn it into a macro lens. Check out the set-up below.
Wasp, 5D Mk III ISO 200, F4, 1/200 16-35 mm 'Reversed' to give a macro look
The set-up. If you look closely you can see the wasp in front of the camera.
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Day 156|14-15
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I really like setting up small studios inside the house, and this was no exception as can be seen.
Our brain can be easily fooled by scale. We all know how long a champagne glass is right. Well this one is 40 cm long. That's longer than your foot. The fruit is Native Hibiscus, enjoy.
Excess - 5D Mk III - Focus Stacked (19 Images), ISO200, F8, 1/8
The Setup
Look at the iPhones, right hand edge of table for scale and the computer using Helicon Remote connected to the camera.
The glass was 40 cm long.
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Day 155|14-15
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This Female Orchard Swallowtail is at the end of her life as can be seen by the ragged edges of her wings which are meant to have yellow highlights. It's larva is not good for our citrus trees as they eat the leaves.
Female Orchard Swallowtail - 5D Mk III, ISO 200, F2.8, 1/320, Flash
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Day 154|14-15
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The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species.
This little fella in our back yard was only four mm long.
I love this image but I am also excited about the possibilities what cam be achived with a better macro set up.
Jumping Spider - 5D Mk III, EF70-200 @ 70 mm, ISO 200, F8, 1/200 and flash
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Day 153|14-15
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Bearded Dragon Interesting Fact - At 5 - 9 inches long he is 2 months old. At 12 months they can be 22 inches long.
This little guy wandered into our house, so I took the opportunity to take a snap. Well actually I took 31 at different focus points along the lizard then joined them all up. Its called focus stacking, which gets the whole lizard in focus.
Australian Juvenile Bearded Dragon
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Day 152|14-15
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Interesting Fact - The growing cicada spends up to 17 years underground and when they rise from th soil they only live four to six weeks. That sucks.
This little fella is a Cicada, well actually it's called the Molt. The Cicada does an Alien act and pushes his way out and leaves the shell (molt) behind, he's was 41 mm long.
Cicada Molt - 5D Mk III, Canon 100 mm Macro, 1/100, f2.8, ISO 3200
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Day 151|14-15
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You can look from the edge and think, "No nothing there" or you can go for a walk and really be surprised what you find.
These beautiful back-lite sponges are a great example.
The beauty at the edge
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Day 150|14-15
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While this image has strong geometric, leading lines and texture going for it, I also enjoyed the story of the old and the new. If you look to the horizon, on the left had side we can see some construction activity going on.
Towards a better future
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Day 149|14-15
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The life of a traveler
Don't you just love how the brain works, no rest not even when taking a shower. What I enjoyed about this scene was its simplicity and geometry. I would hope people would guess that it is a Hotel bathroom given the rolled up towel, rather than just thrown over the holder.
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Day 148|14-15
I find the recording of time and decay at the edge of the ocean fascinating, especially when it involves man made materials made of metal.
Relentless decay has no respect, and with time as it's friend, It just goes about doing the job.
This image of the effects of passing time was captured at the edge of the Persian Gulf and Kuwait.
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Day 147|14-15
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Unfortunately this 'Red-browed Finch flew into our Gallery window this morning. They are a beautiful little bird.
The after image was 22 shots taken with Helicon Focus remote them focus stacked with Helicon Focus. Then I used Lightroom 5 for raw processing and Photoshop CC 2014 to finish it off.
I hope you like it as much as I do.
Taking the 22 shoots with Helicon Remote
The Red-Browed Finch
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Day 146|14-15
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Many of you may not of heard of a great photographer Edward Weston, but he did some very cool 'Pepper' photos.
Below is the set up for my pepper shot, I hope you enjoy the before and after.
The Set-up
Pepper I
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Day 145|14-15
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Short trip to Paris over the weekend really paid off, the helicopter ride was a bonus. Really glad the authorities didn't catch me before I got the shot.
The Tower
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Day 144|14-15
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After a wonderful Friday Night Drinks in Gallery 734 I was treated to Pancakes with the lot.
Thanks to all the friends and new friends that tuned up to share the evening.
Pancakes with the lot
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Day 143|14-15
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What a wonderful way to relax, listening to water bubble and move.
Coloured Ripples