Excellent work!!!
A beautiful journey to Liliput - I wonder how do you retain your subject in focus?!
Fantstic photos,love them all
Cheilosia male hoverfly on a little yellow flower, made with magnification factor 8 and f/11 using a Canon 7D, the Canon macrolens MP-E 65mm/f2.8 and a Canon 2x teleconverter. It is a single picture, made in our garden without using a tripod, while the hoverfly was going its own business. Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams. In other species, the larvae are insectivores and prey on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects (source: Wikipedia).
Frontal portrait of a ladybird, made with magnification 8 and f/11 using a Canon 7D, a Canon macrolens MP-E 65mm/f2.8 and a Canon 2x converter. The picture is a single image, made in our garden without using a tripod while the insects are busy doing their business. Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (UK, Ireland, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Malta, parts of Canada), or ladybugs (North America). Scientists increasingly prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles, as these insects are neither birds nor bugs (ref: Wikipedia). Coccinellids are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae (Source: Wikipedia).
Springtail with a size of around 1.5 mm, made with magnification factor 12 and f/6.4. 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)
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