This horrible little thing was hanging from the ceiling one night while I was in bed. He didn’t seem to shy so I managed to get quite close with my macro and got some fairly nice detail.
It’s one of the more "interesting" looking moths though, I will give it that, not like those nasty furry ones.
In the butterfly world there were a whole swarm of them which weren’t that easy to spot.
For instance, this one here tried to disguise itself as a winged leaf.
All in all though I think I did a pretty good job in spotting a variety of the different species.
I was unfortunately forced to use the flash for this shot.
There wasn’t a lot of light and I wanted to get a large depth of focus to capture all of this flutterby because I quite liked it’s upside down stance. Maybe you and I differ but I’ve never seen one upside down so it made me smile.
NB: just noticed i seem to be getting into this square format, more and more recently
A while back me and Meg had a pet snail. called "Snail".
We kept him in a plastic muffin box which I stabbed some air holes in. filled with soil and lashed generous servings of lettuce and other green goodness in ever so often.
"Snail" was a no frills pet and that suited us fine.
Unfortunately though after a few days of solid rain we feared the worst and suspected he drowned.
Meg’s mum got rid of him to save us the trauma.
R.I.P. "Snail"
I’m quite happy with the way this shot turned out.
The spider had built a web in between a few stalks of a potted plant and spent most of the time sat there in the middle, waiting for lunch.
For some reason, the out of focus background turned blue, which should originally have been green, only some mild sharpening done in post so it’s not me.
Anyway, i’m glad of that because the "white" of the web has become more prominent against the dark background. It was VERY difficult to capture this image.
There was the world’s lightest breeze blowing but as macro photographers will no doubt know, through the lens it looks like a tsunami.
Eventually after firing off enough shots and trying to block the breeze with my body (and failing) I got a few out of it which were okay.
A man in the Butterfly House told us how to distinguise between a moth and a flutterby.
As you’ve guessed, I’ve forgotten.
This is one of the two.
Unfortunately, I was getting pretty close to these things and setting my aperture quite high so I used onboard flash. I hope it doesn’t effect them in any way.
One seemed to twitch a little bit after I had fired the flash at it.
We left shortly afterwards.
I’d managed to get, what I considered, a decent close up of a green-bluebottly fly: www.flickr.com/photos/mjkov/2653033707/in/set-72157606300…
That was until I saw other macros of the insect…..
So I went back out, inspired to not just settle with being close but to try and frame up/wait for a decent shot to come along.
While it might not be the best, I’m still happy with the result.
It’s a lot better than the original I feel, the depth of field is deeper and more defined around the eyes, where I felt it was most important to be sharp.
little hairy bugger…
I don’t know a great deal about insects but I’m positive this is the same spider I saw in an encyclopedia.
It builds a little "web-nest" thing on the underside of a leaf.
I don’t know why, i don’t remember reading that bit.
Anyway, i spotted him running up the stem of this plant and followed him back to his hideout!