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Some more portraits .....

Postby blacknstormy on Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:41 pm

Bee:

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Portrait of a cicada :

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Portrait of a dragonfly:

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Postby colin_12 on Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:21 pm

The bee is Great Rel. How did you get the dragonfly to sit still for long enogh to get close. Envious of that one. :) Took ages to find one that would rest on his favourite reed for long enogh to shoot the other day. Not this close though. :(
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Postby Geoff on Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:17 pm

Rel - love the bee! :)
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Postby Yi-P on Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:24 pm

The bee looks so alien like!! 8)
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Postby Killakoala on Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:07 pm

All three of them are great.
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Postby garlino on Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:53 pm

All are nice.

Love the cicada. Never realised it looked that way
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Postby stetner on Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:30 pm

So, with mouth parts like that, what does a cicada eat?
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Postby BT*ist on Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:26 am

Love the bee - it's a pose I haven't seen. Also, without a flower in sight, a very unique shot. That cicada looks nightmarish! (The animal, not the photo)
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Postby iposiniditos on Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:31 am

Incredible stuff...

blacknstormy, could you tell us about your macro setup?
I would like to have the ability to do macro sometimes.
I just have some extension tubes for now...

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