Posts for: newtoyou
Feb 11, 2019 16:12:57 #
Feb 10, 2019 13:49:21 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Thanks, Mark. I tweaked the image a bit including... (show quote)
You succeeded. You might try the smallest insect pin. Point in specimen, head in putty. I use the arm in pic that follows. Mounted in a hole allows easy adjustment. Bit of clay in hole in top to hold pins.
I think a piece of black electric wire would also work. Pin in the plastic shield.
Enjoy the day.
Bill
Feb 10, 2019 13:30:55 #
The wasp is traveled and used. Gary sent it to me, and I lost an antenna and the head came off, so this. Co-incidence in idea.
I have a first surface mirror. The Marmorated Stink Bug is on that.
The beetles from larva collected beginning of winter, mounted on pine bark.
T2i and MPE65. Fixed LED light. No stacking. About 2.5x.
The last is a joke. All extension tubes and a bellows with two doublers and a 4x lens. Looks formidable, but a dud.
Bill
I have a first surface mirror. The Marmorated Stink Bug is on that.
The beetles from larva collected beginning of winter, mounted on pine bark.
T2i and MPE65. Fixed LED light. No stacking. About 2.5x.
The last is a joke. All extension tubes and a bellows with two doublers and a 4x lens. Looks formidable, but a dud.
Bill
Feb 10, 2019 12:14:33 #
tommystrat wrote:
The Gold Camp Road, especially where it is near Cripple Creek, is one of the most dramatic and outstanding vistas I have ever seen. Especially in the fall, when the aspens turn gold and the entire mountain range just shimmers! Thanks for the memories!
Greetings from GCR, June, 83. Taken by a lady friend.
Bill
Feb 10, 2019 11:58:26 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
The pin-in-modeling clay can be given a more impressive name, as shown here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnhallmen/6689335483/in/album-72157604592459772/ 🙂
So you have a needle in a clay stack?🤒
Bill
Feb 9, 2019 18:36:20 #
Johann Schutte wrote:
Camera Model Canon EOS 6D br Shooting Date/Time 9/... (show quote)
I must admit that I, having lived thru the 70's and early 80's, had a different roach in mind. Pardon me.
To be redundant, your work is exemplary. Thank you.
Bill
Feb 9, 2019 11:12:51 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Very good!
Snail growth rings are not annual, certainly. I don't know what schedule they follow, if any.
Snail growth rings are not annual, certainly. I don't know what schedule they follow, if any.
I found that the rings are not annual, but there is a way to see winter inactive time, no growth time. Not going there.
They are hermaphrodites, must lay eggs year round from what I have seen in Maryland. Find them all seasons.
A 2.5 gallon terrarium with leaf litter dwellers is very interesting. No toads allowed.
Bill
Feb 9, 2019 10:19:13 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is one of my crickets (yep, I bought 30 of them) that is posed to show its mouth parts. If you look closely you will see its needle like pairs of teeth.
Glad I don't have nightmares. I believe a lot of inspiration for Hollywood aliens comes from insect anatomy.
Chitin is formed into some of the sharpest things in nature. Compare the finest hypo with a wasp sting under a microscope. Or with your camera.
Some of the larger coneheads can give you a nasty bite.
A large carabid larva will hurt you, numerous punctures.
The converse of the reasons insects cannot get too large is they can be ultra small and still 'strong'. They fill the empty spaces, the dark matter of the animal world.
Spring like here, up and out.
Carpe diem, "thas Latin, dahlin'".
Bill
Feb 8, 2019 16:57:49 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I'm continuing to practice and experiment with light, diffusion and macro setup and this is a study in texture of a tiny vacant snail shell that I collected some time ago.
Hopefully someday I'll come across a live one with spring not too far away now. I placed this shell at an angle to the lens to get a perspective view hoping to give it a bit more interest to the eye.
Hopefully someday I'll come across a live one with spring not too far away now. I placed this shell at an angle to the lens to get a perspective view hoping to give it a bit more interest to the eye.
Interesting. A ring count will not work here. Do the snails then go thru numerous periodic growth spurts, rather than one or two seasonally, like bivalves?
That is what the rings hint.
They can be found now as eggs. Both slug's and snail's eggs are about 2mm clear balls in a sticky mass. Found under well rotted logs and kept in Tupperware with a handful of substrate, vent daily, they may hatch. Feed over the hill slimey lettuce.
This is when many arthropods start to become active. Keep solar gain in mind. Woods clearings can be surprisingly busy on a sunny day. Setting tin can pit traps are a good bet now.
Company here. Back later, Gary.
Bill
Feb 8, 2019 15:41:20 #
tinusbum wrote:
thanks, but no.i like to hunt and shoot.hunting is as much fun as shooting
Agree with that.
Feb 8, 2019 13:55:59 #
tinusbum wrote:
it started having a black spot in every shot.i took the lens off and looked through it and i could see something hanging down in the middle of the lens,so back to canon it goes
Que chupa huevos.
Would you like to try using microscope lenses Lily Gary is doing?
RSVP to me private if so. An equipment loan, if you'd like?
Bill
Feb 8, 2019 02:58:54 #
SueScott wrote:
I agree - I rarely bought clothing there.
You were lucky, my mother bought MY clothes there. The jeans the worst.
Bill
Feb 7, 2019 23:13:31 #
KiheiVillages wrote:
Anyone who thinks of themselves as an Artist, shou... (show quote)
In some instances, the artist conceives, the Craftsmen follows a plan. A grasp of aesthetics is not needed to follow a plan, but may be needed to create the plan. Some photogs are only talented, the best are also artists.
Until I started, I never really saw art in photography. I still do not know what art IS, I just know what I like. And I like a lot on this site. How many artists out there? Raise your hand.
Bill
Feb 7, 2019 22:48:56 #
Almostageezer wrote:
The world has changed, a shame that Sears could not keep up.....
I, for one, do not miss these stores. Yes, I may be nostalgic for them. I am 72. Iremember as a kid with my parents. I want this ,I wish I had that. Didn't need it, but did I need five or more cameras, like now? Actually, yes, then I would have started photography sooner. But when I can buy a new range, delivered, or a large TV, delivered, from my cell phone, probably less than at a store, why subject myself to the hastle? Even better, I live in a third floor condo. The only reason malls will stay is the teeny boppers that hang out there will be voters and give them protection from obsolescence. Grocery stores will live on. Not just out of distrust in another to pick OUR food, but for the social aspect. I would rather still have the woods and fields.
Bill
Feb 7, 2019 22:23:23 #
tinusbum wrote:
your focus is great,you dont need help. the mite is the only one i might agree with you but those little guys test us all
That is because it is a 'mite' out of focus.🤒 And even if I am one of the finders, how to we find these creatures to start with? Perception. Interest.
Bill