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Of flies and flashes
Small fly (Meiosimyza sp.) resting on a bracken fern In my last post (Portrait of a yellow rabbit snail) I mentioned that I thought maybe it was time to invest in a new modern flash. So I checked arou… more →
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Of flies and flashes
wrote 1 day ago: Small fly (Meiosimyza sp.) resting on a bracken fern In my last post (Portrait of a yellow rabbit sn … more →
Portrait of a yellow rabbit snail (Tylomelania zemis)
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Yellow rabbit snail (Tylomelania zemis) native to Lake Poso in Sulawesi, Indonesia Isn’t this a gorg … more →
White box photographs of a Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla): part II
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla) on moss My last post (see White box photographs of a Pacific … more →
White box photographs of a Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla): part I
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wrote 1 month ago: Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla) There are a lot of reasons to love spring of course…but … more →
I'm baaaack....Part III: fried bugs as a nutritious and tasty snack!
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wrote 1 month ago: A very friendly Thai gentleman selling stir-fried insects outside the Chatuchak (weekend) market in … more →
I'm baaaack....Part II (at last!)
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wrote 1 month ago: My “travelling light” camera gear: (1): Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Digital Camer … more →
Baby (Brachypelma) got a brand new coat
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wrote 3 months ago: These pictures are of a young Mexican red-kneed tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) that I bought quite s … more →
Hillstream loach from the underside
wrote 3 months ago: Underside of the head of a hillstream loach clinging to the surface of a glass aquarium Lately I hav … more →
The amazing “flying” pond snail
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wrote 4 months ago: A pond snail (family Lymnaeidae) slowly drifting down through the water column, prepares to land on … more →
Mystery of the red-spotted amphipod resolved
wrote 4 months ago: Very tightly cropped photo of a freshwater amphipod (Gammarus lacustris) infected with an acanthocep … more →
The lost amphipod (macro) photos
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wrote 4 months ago: Side view of a very pretty specimen of freshwater amphipod (Gammarus lacustris) photographed as it r … more →
Image stacking: macro photograph of a fruit fly using a yogurt container white box
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wrote 5 months ago: Photo of a fruit fly (Drosophila) compiled from a stack of 43 images using Zerene stacker. The image … more →
More scorpion pictures: (Orthochirus scrobiculosus negebensis)
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wrote 5 months ago: I haven’t posted for almost a week and I have been feeling quite guilty about it. I picked-up a nast … more →
A scorpion, a white box and 15 minutes
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wrote 5 months ago: A couple of posts ago (see Photographing down the food web: silkworms) I was lamenting the lack of c … more →
Image stacking: head of a mosquito
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wrote 5 months ago: I took this photo last summer, filed it, and completely forgot about it. It was created from a stack … more →
Photographing down the food web: silkworms (Bombyx mori)
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wrote 5 months ago: Back in 1998 a group of scientists published a paper in Science that discussed how humans were “fish … more →
Image stacking revisited: macro photograph a sow bug—take 3
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wrote 6 months ago: A side-view of the head of a common sow bug or woodlouse (order Isopoda) created from a stack of 57 … more →
Mombasa golden starburst tarantula (Pterinochilus murinus)
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wrote 6 months ago: The photos featured in today’s blog post are of a tarantula I photographed back in the mid 1990s—I h … more →
White box photography of tobacco hornworms (Manduca sexta): Part 3
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wrote 6 months ago: Macro portrait of a tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) photographed using a white box with a green foa … more →
