Excellent work!!!
A beautiful journey to Liliput - I wonder how do you retain your subject in focus?!
Fantstic photos,love them all
Springtail with a size of around 1.0 mm, made with magnification factor 12 and f/2.8. It is a single picture and the picture has been made in the garden using a handheld Canon 7D fitted with a macrolens MP-E 65mm/f2.8 and two Canon 2x teleconverters. Members of Collembola are normally less than 6 mm long. Most species have an abdominal, tail-like appendage, the furcula, that is folded beneath the body to be used for jumping when the animal is threatened. It is held under tension by a small structure called the retinaculum and when released, snaps against the substrate, flinging the springtail into the air. All of this takes place in as little as 18 milliseconds (ref. Wikipedia)
Detail head green shield bug, made with magnification 8 and f/4.5 using a Canon 7D, a Canon macrolens MP-E 65mm/f2.8 and a Canon 2x teleconverter. The green shield bug (Palomena prasina) is a shield bug of the family Pentatomidae. It may also be referred to as a green stink bug, particularly outside of Britain, although the name green stink bug more appropriately belongs to the larger North American stink bug, Acrosternum hilare. The adult green shield bug ranges in the colour of their backs from bright green to bronze, without any substantial markings. Green shield bugs are a very common shield bug throughout Europe, including the British Isles, and are found in a large variety of habitats, including gardens. In Europe, the bright green shield bugs appear in May, having hibernated as imagos during the winter (Source: Wikipedia).
A juvenile Rhododendron leafhopper (Graphocephala fennahi), so named as it feeds on the sap of rhododendrons, is native to the USA. The species was introduced to Great Britain in the 1930s and continental Europe in the 1970s. The photo has been made with magnification factor 8 and f/5.0.
Guido Bohne
on October 20, 2017Excellent work!!!
Guido Bohne
on October 20, 2017A beautiful journey to Liliput - I wonder how do you retain your subject in focus?!
Matthew
on December 25, 2012Fantstic photos,love them all