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Brad Ross · May 28, 2016

Welcome to 28_May_2016 Weekly Close Up (WCU) Thread, an invitation to share your photos of: Anything Close up - Insects, flowers, or inanimate objects

No restrictions as to camera or system, no photo-processing requirements, just a desire to see what your interests and imagination will bring.

Comments are appreciated but are your option. Please be courteous, appreciate what you find here, and provide information and comments that add to your pictures when you can.

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Brad Ross · May 28, 2016

taken with the 300mm & EC1.4 and heavily cropped

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PhilSouth · May 28, 2016

Well done!

Brad Ross · May 28, 2016

Thanks those guys, are little and difficult to isolate, they seemed to like this pond twig

Phil Rose · May 28, 2016

I took these shots earlier this week—the ants are on the flower buds of a peony bush in the back yard. The ants are about 3 to 4mm long.

I believe they’re called “Winter Ants” (also called “False Honey Ants”). Once the peony buds open up, the ants will also be found prowling around inside the luscious, pink blossoms. [Have a look at original size...the detail holds up pretty well.]

"I'll See You on the Dark Side of the Bloom" (with apologies to Pink Floyd):

It's these tiny droplets of nectar that attract the foraging ants to peony buds:

I’m finding that macro shooting is a little more tiring than it used to be. For these shots I did use a tripod and also made good use of a (shower) chair that we bought for me 6 months ago (when I came home from the hospital). I no longer needed the chair after just a few weeks use, so it’s nice to find there are some other (outdoor) uses for it.

Phil

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Brad Ross · May 28, 2016

Wow, nice ants pic, I am using tripod more, because of manual focus, which I am doing more, peonies, much have that magic elixir for ants,

Joe Trimarchi · May 29, 2016

Good shooting Brad. They are a difficult subject to focus on and even when you do the depth of field is very shallow.

Joe Trimarchi · May 29, 2016

The insect world always looks so different when we view it close up. Good shooting.

19andrew47 · May 29, 2016

A very nice set Phil. The ants are sharply detailed.

I have one of those shower chairs as well, from repeated knee surgeries, four total where I needed the chair after ward (several others when I did not).

Andrew

Joe Trimarchi · May 29, 2016

A series of the male Ebony Jewelwing Damselfy. Various positions and lighting.

Joe Trimarchi · May 29, 2016

I have no idea what type of Damselfly this is but it was difficult to focus on as it is so tine. The 75-300 lens has limitations and focusing on something very small at the long end is not easy. On the first shot I was able to get some depth of field but on the 2nd only about the eyes.

Common Whitetail male

Some type of Skipper

DickyAus · May 29, 2016

19andrew47 · May 29, 2016

This is a very nice set Joe. Nicely detailed.

Andrew

19andrew47 · May 29, 2016

Dicky that top one looks like it is impaled or has a thorn growing out of its .....

Andrew

DickyAus · May 29, 2016

19andrew47 said:
Dicky that top one looks like it is impaled or has a thorn growing out of its .....

Andrew

If it eats any more of my plants it will have.... :-D

Joe Trimarchi · May 30, 2016

They look like some type of horn worms and if they are some of them turn into beautiful clear wing/Hummingbird moths.

Brad Ross · May 30, 2016

beautiful and spot on focus and DOF

Brad Ross · May 30, 2016

yes I have the same problem with damselflies, they never seem to be horizontal in my view so cannot get the entire body in focus. I have to manually focus the lens

Brad Ross · May 30, 2016

unusual caterpillar well set off against those thrones

DickyAus · Jun 3, 2016

Joe Trimarchi said:
They look like some type of horn worms and if they are some of them turn into beautiful clear wing/Hummingbird moths.

I'm sure they would have done, but alas, a Magpie found them and ate the lot. :-(

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