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Lord Vetinari
Sep-11-2005, 11:13 AM
Macro bug season is coming to an end here in the UK, so I thought I get some whilst the going was good. I thought this was an interesting mix of "styles".

Wasn't me!


http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603516-L.jpg

mmm hoverfly

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603519-L.jpg

Spider and the fly (well most of a fly)

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603521-L.jpg


Hoverfly visiting Impatiens flower

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603523-L.jpg

Hate to think what this spider has caught but it's big!

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603524-L.jpg

Fortune telling spider ( I think it's a resin bead from my pond filter)

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603526-L.jpg

Mating midges (about 4mm long each) on a New Zealand flax plant leaf

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603527-L.jpg

Solitary digger wasp on potentilla bush

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603528-L.jpg

Hire wire act- small midge again resting on a strand of a spider's web

http://lordv.smugmug.com/photos/35603640-L.jpg
gluwater
Sep-11-2005, 01:35 PM
Nice shots as usual Brian. Good mix of subjects
tmlphoto
Sep-11-2005, 03:09 PM
Nice work LV. The last is my favorite.
Khaos
Sep-11-2005, 07:01 PM
I love viewing your shots. It's so cool to see a different world close up.:thumb
Lord Vetinari
Sep-11-2005, 10:12 PM
Nice shots as usual Brian. Good mix of subjectsThanks Nick

Nice work LV. The last is my favorite.Thanks Thomas- I only recently found out that small insects use spiders webs to hang about on (on purpose) apparently they are too small for the spider to bother with.

[QUOTE=Khaos]I love viewing your shots. It's so cool to see a different world close up.:thumb[/QUOTE

Thanks Khaos- I still enjoy taking them- wonder what I'm going to do in the Winter? :D
gluwater
Sep-12-2005, 05:53 AM
Thanks Khaos- I still enjoy taking them- wonder what I'm going to do in the Winter? :D
Macro snowflake in flight?:rofl
BigAl
Sep-12-2005, 10:43 PM
Nice series Brian. You're going to have to come down south for your winter :wink The bugs are just starting to come out now...
Lord Vetinari
Sep-13-2005, 10:06 AM
Nice series Brian. You're going to have to come down south for your winter :wink The bugs are just starting to come out now...Thanks Alan,
Nice idea- going South for the winter.
Have you got your replacement lens yet?
Brian V.
BigAl
Sep-14-2005, 11:10 PM
Thanks Alan,
Nice idea- going South for the winter.
Have you got your replacement lens yet?
Brian V. Follow the swallows!

I got the lens back last Saturday. They repaired it, rather than replacing it and I've taken well over 250 pics since then (just to check that it works of course:wink ). It *really* is an amazing lens - thanks for making me consider it. Am adding what I regard as the better pics to smugmug (http://bigal-sa.smugmug.com/gallery/762191) on a daily basis.

alan