nice photographs, i love fungus, i miss photographing them! they have all started to disapear here now, and the bugs starting to apear!

im no expert, but your fungi it looks like some kind of galerina species to me.

thanks.

i like the 3rd best.

freaky!, 80F water? wow thats some warm water!

Thanks for your reply Bernhard. I just recently notaced it has seemed to have split into two by itself, and they are both acting as individual organism's with head and eyes. they are eating like crazy!, and they allso seem to be interacting with eachother, something is bound to happen. This is reall...

amazing, ive never seen such an abundance.

I dont know what this specimen is. I collected a sample from a fresh water stream with bits of water plants in it, i notaced there where very faint up to 1cm long worms in it - as i held the jar up to the light I decided to prepare a slide with one of these worms. It seems to move around a fair bit,...

The water in which i photographed them was quite shallow in some parts, they where pretty scrambly too, but as i took the time to look, some of them where very still, like this one, maybe trying to camouflage it-self. I found that generally the photographs from side on - to the waters surface, come ...

wow nice photograph, what kind of objective did you use?

hmm thats interesting, what is this some sort of a defense mechanism?

I had been wanting to find frogs recently, still havent any luck spotting them, i found many of there babies, so i gave them a go. perhaps its something alittle different from the usal macro subjects we see here. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/114_tadpoleRS_1.jpg hope you enjoy this l...

lovely photographs and great dof the caterpilar is crisp in every photograph.

"Global Warming." Seriously, a lot of animals and insect species that were once found in the southern climates, are now migrating northwards due to the warming trends or at least that is what I have been reading. :D Maybe this is why theres isnt many bugs around here, or maybe its still not warm en...

Thanks Charles. I think that another thing i could do is buy one of those screw clamps, switch clamps, use the screw clamp on the ballhead, attach the focus rail and then attach the leaver clamp ontop of the focus rail, hows that sound? Im gonna have to attach another clamp ontop on the focus rail, ...

wow what a cute little guy, awsome capture's.

nice photograph, great dof, those bugs sure are pretty look at those lovely patterns, well done.