Popular Post Robby nz Posted April 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 27, 2015 Hoppidoptera. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post sometime Posted April 29, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2015 Tried to find out the ID, no luck Panasonic LF1 iso 200 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mousehound Posted April 29, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2015 Tried to find out the ID, no luck P1050108a_cr.jpg P1050122_cr.jpg Panasonic LF1 iso 200 Buprestid or Jewel Beetle - I don't know the specific species. Thailand is super rich in this group with species numbering in the hundreds, with most likely many unnamed. They are hunted for their use in the jewellery trade. Nice shot - colour at its most intense. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometime Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Tried to find out the ID, no luck P1050108a_cr.jpg P1050122_cr.jpg Panasonic LF1 iso 200 Buprestid or Jewel Beetle - I don't know the specific species. Thailand is super rich in this group with species numbering in the hundreds, with most likely many unnamed. They are hunted for their use in the jewellery trade. Nice shot - colour at its most intense. Its only 5mm in size, I suppose I should have included a shot of the original size,( Next time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tywais Posted April 29, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2015 Not a macro shot as I took it with my LG G2 mobile phone camera. The guy wouldn't stay still and running all over the place so I looked rather silly hunched over trying to get my phone as close to him as possible and chasing him around. Still had to do a 100% crop of him as he was skittish. Quite a few of them around running on the concrete but don't know what it is. Think some kind of tree insect with a big nose and eyes painted on his back. //edit - just saw this is the first time I posted in this topic. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mousehound Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 This a late instar of a crusader Bug (Beetle). They are common throughout Australia and SE Asia. They are a true "bug" with a tube to suck sap from plants. In Australia they help keep Mimosa down. here is a link to what I am pretty sure is the full adult version of the one you took. I too this pic in Chiang Mai. There is also a nice shot of a White Lipped Viper. My Thai friend spotted it in the branches about six inches from my head and I had not seen it. http://stevekeeling.smugmug.com/Category/Thailand-mamals/Reptiles-and-arachnidae-beetle/i-vkVw84M Not a macro shot as I took it with my LG G2 mobile phone camera. The guy wouldn't stay still and running all over the place so I looked rather silly hunched over trying to get my phone as close to him as possible and chasing him around. Still had to do a 100% crop of him as he was skittish. Quite a few of them around running on the concrete but don't know what it is. Think some kind of tree insect with a big nose and eyes painted on his back. //edit - just saw this is the first time I posted in this topic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sometime Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Just had a thought, should I have put my last two posts in nature in Macro or Nature? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mousehound Posted April 30, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2015 (edited) P1050160a_cr.jpg Looks like one of the "Net Winged" insects that form the Dragonflies, Damsel Flies, Owl Flies, Lacewings and Antlions - Myrmeleontidae. This Looks like an Antlion to me. Edited April 30, 2015 by Mousehound 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goompa Posted May 2, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 2, 2015 I cannot remember if I shared this image before , age is getting to me .. Thai Basil Leaf Hopper 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goompa Posted May 3, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 3, 2015 I am going to have to teach my camera some composition / background theory ! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Goomps...Look at the pollen opn the bee's legs...the individual grains...Nice Shot! Never mind the blurry stick/pipe.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I am going to have to teach my camera some composition / background theory ! Could you remind me what camera & lens used plus EXIF data. Useful when one wants to emulate the type of shot. Very nice indeed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goompa Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Sure , was shot at f5 with exposure @ 1/400 iso 200 13.4mb raw file Olympus EM10 with ED60 2.8 macro lens on macro setting around 500mm distance with focus peaking manual Edited in PS Elements , I guess the same as LR + 21 points increase sharpen +12 points increase NR Contrast +6 Saturation - 2 no filters , no layers . Brought into Picasa and cropped to eliminate ( most ) out of focus foreground elements. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Sure , was shot at f5 with exposure @ 1/400 iso 200 13.4mb raw file Olympus EM10 with ED60 2.8 macro lens on macro setting around 500mm distance with focus peaking manual Thanks. I have the EM-1 and was considering the ED60 but am now leaning to get the 40-150mm (80-300mm 35mm equiv) f/2.8 Pro lens and extension tubes to do macro. Of course light loss is a concern but looking at getting the off camera Olympus flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goompa Posted May 4, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2015 (edited) Funny that , I am considering the EM1 which is about to come on sale here , I would love to get the pro lens but I figure I will have to get used to the EM 1 first , as that is a big chunk out of the savings for me . I have never been happy with the EM10 , it just don't work well for me . Cheers edit to include photo ..... Edited May 4, 2015 by Goompa 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hitchcock might have birds, but I have a gang of frogs doing a private show. Three frogs and 10 geckoes taking care of the flying insects. This is the leader of the frog gang. First it jumped up 4 layers of 2nd floor balcony railings. Frog gang leader ready to jump to the tree by pekkaoilinki, on Flickr And then jumped to the tree next to my home. Others followed. Good viewpoint by pekkaoilinki, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Grumpy old hawkmoth decided to enter my premises. Little did she/he new, there was a photo tax. P6250117.jpg by pekkaoilinki, on Flickr P6250131.jpg by pekkaoilinki, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robby nz Posted May 5, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2015 Common Mime 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 The frog gang did their evening jump show once again. The frog which flew away by pekkaoilinki, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonjelly Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Sand bug..... dead! Think it's a cicada 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mousehound Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 P1050277.jpg P1050299.jpg Outstanding shot of a very interesting animal. I have no idea what it will hatch into. It is so well camouflaged that it would appear to be plant specific. So most likely would have evolved with the plant and may well be symbiotic with the adult playing a part in pollination. But this is conjecture. Be interesting to test the hypotheses. Thanks for the pic! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sometime Posted May 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2015 Nice little cocoon. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometime Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 P1050277.jpg P1050299.jpg Outstanding shot of a very interesting animal. I have no idea what it will hatch into. It is so well camouflaged that it would appear to be plant specific. So most likely would have evolved with the plant and may well be symbiotic with the adult playing a part in pollination. But this is conjecture. Be interesting to test the hypotheses. Thanks for the pic! Just found the name of the plant it is feeding on its an areca triandra palm, finding the caterillars name is another thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goompa Posted May 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2015 (edited) Would be nice to see what emerges from that cacoon , keep looking mate . In the meantime , another grub shot ... Edited May 8, 2015 by Goompa 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sunshine51 Posted May 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2015 How many of you folks have seen something to photograph & at that instant a song from your past pops into your head? Yeah I know...too many doobies in my past but what the heck...it happens to me many times & I don't mind at all! So...this morning I saw some traveling bees at their new nest in a wild fig tree out behind our house and this song popped into my head.... Oh yeah...here's the bees.... TableCam...Canon G16, 85mm @ 5.6, Shutter priority 1/125th sec We humans can't eat the figs...won't kill us but makes us really sick, just FYI that. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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