A very satisfying group of images; I particularly like the rampant beetle!

Leonard

An interesting sequence and dissertation. I am a bit boggled by the amount of spider anatomy and physiology that has been sussed out over the years, but I guess that would be true in many areas of scientific inquiry.

Leonard

A most excellent image, made more even impressive by it having been handheld!

Leonard

My thanks to all of you. Mark, my particular thanks for the additional information; I was previously ignorant on all three points, although I did correctly presume the potential for sting!

Leonard

2020-03-22-16.12.07 DMap 7320-7367 WWSCScopy.jpg I encountered this handsome fellow one morning while sitting on my front steps watching my wife work in the garden. He had apparently been there overnight and, feeling as I sometimes do in the morning, decided it was a bit too soon to start moving ab...

Very nice!

My thanks to colohank and Mark for the id; I ran across these for the first time a couple of years ago in the Pacific Northwest. We don't have them here, and I was quite taken with them.

Leonard

I agree; excellent images, well presented.

I have a question: I am familiar with bleed in printing, but apparently missed the class on "bleed amount". What is it in this context, and why is it important?

Thanks for your indulgence!

Leonard

Thanks, Klevin, and I apologize for the omission. It was a Nikon 105 macro at f5.6 on an 850, natural (window) light, focusing stack created in camera and compiled with Zerene.

Leonard

DMap 7063-7135WCss.jpg Because it was part of a flower arrangement about to be replaced with fresher flowers, I removed and dissected one of the better senior citizens. This is detail of the brown inner floret. I suspect the white dots in the darker lower right may be trichomes on end or may be pol...

A really visually striking series of images, with a most helpful narrative explanation. Thank you!

Leonard

My thanks to you all for your kind comments. Rik, I would submit that what might be interpreted as his proboscis is actually the terminal portion of his right front foot with its reflection, perhaps made more confusing by distortion from a water droplet. I tried to produce a stereo view to help with...

retouched 4573-4692WCDenV3final.jpg Nikon 850, 105mm micro Nikkor The morning after a long hard rain I found this chap admiring his reflection in the hood of a (black) car. Having survived the night, he seemed disinclined to move and held his position for a 120 image stack before ambling off to fac...

Poised on the brink of eternity--

I like this one a lot.

Leonard

Rik and Sym, Thank you for thinking about this with me. As an fyi, the SB-700 is a bit odd in that the duration is said to be almost the same at full output, 1/1042th of a second as it is at half output, 1/1136th. At 1/4, it drops to 1/2857th and only beyond there gets seriously brief. Any thoughts ...

_DSC2918 copyWCDen.jpg Nikon 850, Nikon SB-700 on camera with improvised light piping and diffusion, f 16 @ 1/250th, ISO 160. Cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Topaz Denoise. Intrigued by some excellent field images recently posted on the site using diffused flash and numerically high f-stops c...