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Great set

Nice.

I like the in-focus part of the ants face and the flower. It seems the ant is saying of all the flower I am going after that part.

I take pictures in the desert SW and the mountains; and inaddition to head and neck sun protection, I needed to mitigate sunlight affects on the live view and view finder.
There are my times I am walking to a site so I also wanted to keep the weight down.
My solution for this issue is:
DESIGN:
At a fabric store I got a rectangle of black and a rectancgle of tan lightweight, washable material. I also got strips of “stuff’ the allowed me to “glue” these two retangles togeather using a clothing iron to make a “neck shade”.
To a light tan hat I added 5 snaps to the back half of the hat brim and to the neck shade, so the Black side would be towards my neck and the tan side would be facing out.
I then took a back felt permeant marker a “dyed” the underside of the brim black.
USE:
I typically wear the hat as you would normally and when attached the neck shade in the back. But there are times I rotate the hat on my head to get the maximum light screening for using the viewer or live view.
When the neck shade is not in use I can store in the top of the hat.
It not perfect, but works for me.
I hope the above is clear

great eye shots

nice

I like the eyes in the first one -- nice

I like the composition and I am impressed with the low light stability.

Very nice shoots and you are right there is a lot of "neat stuff" identified here.

When preparing to travel overseas (outside the USA) I research the following two sites:

http://www.adaptelec.com/info-by-country-c-15.html

http://countrycode.org select country scroll down to veiw on the left hand side the power source(s)

Enjoy the trip

Nice

very nice sequence

A very nice stack

I like the DOF used on the second ant photo

nice