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Globbie Relaxing at Home
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Dicyrtomina saundersi with its feet up.
I had never before seen this species alive, and was surprised to find it in my garden when I has a camera in my hand. I found this on a piece of dry, crumbly, rotton Silver Birch bark, very three-dimensional, with "canyons" and "cliffs" which dwarfed the springtail and made framing and focusing a nightmare.
As I tracked it in my viewfinder, it became entangled with some slug slime. I helped it to get free and was rewarded with this image. I had to crop by about 70% and do a lot of processing to get this result but, for my first shot of a globbie, I am pleased with the result. However, there is room for improvement. My intention had been to show the appendages but it came out a little better than that.
EM-1, Leitz Photar 50mm at f11 1/60*, ISO 400, on extension to ca 150mm from the sensor, flash, hand-held.
* Not the usual choice. I was too distracted by the subject matter! It should have been maybe 1/250.
There are some overloaded pixels on the shiny parts.
Harold
I had never before seen this species alive, and was surprised to find it in my garden when I has a camera in my hand. I found this on a piece of dry, crumbly, rotton Silver Birch bark, very three-dimensional, with "canyons" and "cliffs" which dwarfed the springtail and made framing and focusing a nightmare.
As I tracked it in my viewfinder, it became entangled with some slug slime. I helped it to get free and was rewarded with this image. I had to crop by about 70% and do a lot of processing to get this result but, for my first shot of a globbie, I am pleased with the result. However, there is room for improvement. My intention had been to show the appendages but it came out a little better than that.
EM-1, Leitz Photar 50mm at f11 1/60*, ISO 400, on extension to ca 150mm from the sensor, flash, hand-held.
* Not the usual choice. I was too distracted by the subject matter! It should have been maybe 1/250.
There are some overloaded pixels on the shiny parts.
Harold
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Somewhere moist and richly-organic and in the shade is probably your best bet.
Harold
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Thanks, Brian.
Certainly not for long enough to get a shot.
I found another one yesterday, walking along the edge of a thin dead branch which had been on damp soil. Unfortunately, it departed as I carried the branch to where my camera was.
Placing pieces of bark on the grassy or leaf litter-cover ground is paying of.
I will be posting the further adventures of Globbie this morning.
harold