Wallydraigle
Banned
People have been begging for photos, so here they are. I might have posted a couple of them before, I don't really remember.
Here's a dragonfly and here's another dragonly. They're both Pachydiplax longipennis. Now that I think about it, it's possible that they are the same individual. I took these at the same place, but there were a lot of dragonflies around. I really don't like to shoot dragonflies, but they were there.
Here's a blue damselfly. There are a bunch of different species that look exactly alike, and I don't know how to tell them apart. I've gotten better shots of damselflies before, but I likes how the grass made an arch, and the gray background is kind of cool.
I think I posted this one before, but I'm not sure. They are sawfly larvae eating a mugo pine needle. Sawflies are related to bees and wasps, and the adults look a lot like them, but the larvae look more like small moth larvae.
This is a baby toad sitting in a multiflora rose flower. It wasn't any bigger than a pencil eraser. I thought it was just a spider at first.
This is part of the stigma of a begonia flower. I used colored gels on my flashes to get the color effects.
These are the sporangia of a very small slime mold on an old tendril of a grape vine. They were truly tiny.
These next ones are some small musrooms I found. I used colored gels on my flashes to get the psychadelic color effects. The colors weren't messed with in PhotoShop. This one and this one are the same group of pinwheel marasmius taken from different angles with different colored gels. On the second one I bumped up the ISO so the background wouldn't be totally black. I think I used ISO 800 for that one. This one was taken later. I have no idea what they are. There are hundreds of species of little brown mushrooms that look exactly alike, and even people who study them just call them LBMs.
All were taken with my EOS 20D. The two dragonflies were done with my 100-400 IS. The damselfly was done with my 180mm macro. The toad and the slime molds and the larvae were done with my MP-E 65mm macro, and the mushrooms were done with my TS-E 90mm and extension tubes. I'm pretty sure I used flash for all of them. Even with the dragonflies I had a flash sitting off to the side on a tripod so the light didn't look so flat.
Thanks for looking.
Here's a dragonfly and here's another dragonly. They're both Pachydiplax longipennis. Now that I think about it, it's possible that they are the same individual. I took these at the same place, but there were a lot of dragonflies around. I really don't like to shoot dragonflies, but they were there.
Here's a blue damselfly. There are a bunch of different species that look exactly alike, and I don't know how to tell them apart. I've gotten better shots of damselflies before, but I likes how the grass made an arch, and the gray background is kind of cool.
I think I posted this one before, but I'm not sure. They are sawfly larvae eating a mugo pine needle. Sawflies are related to bees and wasps, and the adults look a lot like them, but the larvae look more like small moth larvae.
This is a baby toad sitting in a multiflora rose flower. It wasn't any bigger than a pencil eraser. I thought it was just a spider at first.
This is part of the stigma of a begonia flower. I used colored gels on my flashes to get the color effects.
These are the sporangia of a very small slime mold on an old tendril of a grape vine. They were truly tiny.
These next ones are some small musrooms I found. I used colored gels on my flashes to get the psychadelic color effects. The colors weren't messed with in PhotoShop. This one and this one are the same group of pinwheel marasmius taken from different angles with different colored gels. On the second one I bumped up the ISO so the background wouldn't be totally black. I think I used ISO 800 for that one. This one was taken later. I have no idea what they are. There are hundreds of species of little brown mushrooms that look exactly alike, and even people who study them just call them LBMs.
All were taken with my EOS 20D. The two dragonflies were done with my 100-400 IS. The damselfly was done with my 180mm macro. The toad and the slime molds and the larvae were done with my MP-E 65mm macro, and the mushrooms were done with my TS-E 90mm and extension tubes. I'm pretty sure I used flash for all of them. Even with the dragonflies I had a flash sitting off to the side on a tripod so the light didn't look so flat.
Thanks for looking.
