Misc Nature Photo's Thread

[2wheelsagain]

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Nice photo bomb by the spider too truck

[2wheelsagain]

Nice.  How many ants survived?

All of them.  The shots not that good as it was hand held at 1/15 sec, quite shady.

You need a ring flash.

[Hammy]

Thats awesome Barry. Did you get any other shots ? ie, looking downwards at it.

[Hammy]

Nice.  How many ants survived?

All of them.  The shots not that good as it was hand held at 1/15 sec, quite shady.

You need a ring flash.

Had one 2W. Too fiddly and heavy. You can't beat natural light. Sooner use a monopod. Getting out in the garden with my new eye has certainly remotivated me.

[2wheelsagain]

Nice.  How many ants survived?

All of them.  The shots not that good as it was hand held at 1/15 sec, quite shady.

You need a ring flash.

Had one 2W. Too fiddly and heavy. You can't beat natural light. Sooner use a monopod. Getting out in the garden with my new eye has certainly remotivated me.

I'm about to buy a variable led ring flash. My 55mm lens is light so weight shouldn't be an issue.

[barry_mcki]

Thats awesome Barry. Did you get any other shots ? ie, looking downwards at it.

That was the downward shot.  Here is another, the blocks are about 190mm wide.  The stack was about a meter tall, he (she ?) was right down the bottom.

[Hammy]

We get some beautiful monster moths up here sometimes. I always seem to see them at work when I don't have my camera.

[Kiwisteve]

You will have to use you're phone camera Hammy!

[Hammy]

You will have to use you're phone camera Hammy!

That's another thing that I don't carry with me most of the time.  Hate ém. One of mans worst inventions.  Oops. might have just started a new seg thread. 

[2wheelsagain]

Its a bit slow at work today so I'm going through some of my albums.

Loaded Bee on Ti-Tree Flower

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I saw a mention of a macro light ring, this home brew rig looks interesting for those of us on a budget.

http://wildlifegadgetman.com/?p=2001

[2wheelsagain]

I saw a mention of a macro light ring, this home brew rig looks interesting for those of us on a budget.

http://wildlifegadgetman.com/?p=2001

Given that the dude spent over £25 the $35 jobbies on eBay look pretty neat and economical.  

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I saw a mention of a macro light ring, this home brew rig looks interesting for those of us on a budget.

http://wildlifegadgetman.com/?p=2001

Given that the dude spent over £25 the $35 jobbies on eBay look pretty neat and economical.  

True but he went overboard on his battery pack!

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I just found some more miscellaneous nature.

I was looking at some photos I took of the orange sun here, due to the bush fires, and I noticed three spots, I thought that they were just artefacts at first but they appear in several shots in the same place.

[paul]

Pimples ........don't say it too loud  it might get embarrassed & then turn even redder 

I think the sun has hot spots & they are the result of explosions  ....................or it may be just the chardonnay I'm sampling  




Found it
                   http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/ask/?quid=551

[Hammy]

Dust on your sensor.

[2wheelsagain]

Although interesting I don't think you'd see sun spots with an everyday camera. 
That leaves me to agree with Hammy and that scares me more than the sun shutting down

[SuzySuzuki]

Take a photo of a white piece of paper, if the spots are there, its not a snowstorm....

[Re-Cycled]

Dust on your sensor.

That's what I thought at first but the same pattern is there in a sequence of shots with the Sun in a different part of the frame.

[2wheelsagain]

That's interesting then.

[Hammy]

UFOs  hiding in the suns glare.  Very crafty those Aliens.   Look out Gus. They're on their way back.

[2wheelsagain]

You missed a couple that Galileo drew so I withdraw my earlier thoughts about dust on the sensor.

[barry_mcki]

Nar - just the trailer for "Armageddon II".....  

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You missed a couple that Galileo drew so I withdraw my earlier thoughts about dust on the sensor.

I found a site where you can check it by day, I took mine on the 24th so being an American site I looked at the 23rd.
Looks familiar, except sideways due, I think, to them depicting the Sun's axis of rotation vertically.

It seems to change fairly rapidly.

http://www.solarmonitor.org/full_disk.php?date=20131023&type=chmi_06173®ion=

[2wheelsagain]

A couple of photos from "work" today


Spoonbill


Bee on Pigface & Hoverfly

[Jimmy the Boy]

Thankyou Chris, those little buggers are Hoverflies are they? There are a million of them around here at the moment and none of us knew what they were. They are all over everything, roses, petunias, limes, lemons, bottlebrushes, the lot.Ps great pics.

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