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This week -
in... spiders...
E-P5 / Tokina AT-X 90mm F2.5 / Raynox 250
^ almost every one of these is from .25 seconds before the spider jumped onto the camera or flash diffuser (that's what it's looking at when it's not looking straight into the lens). Supposedly these green jumping spiders (no really, the country that brought you the brown snake now brings you another imaginatively named animal
) are australia's largest jumping spiders but I've never seen any one of them I'd call particularly big in comparison to any other. And after a year of looking I've still never seen a male - the males look like someone thought crossing a mandril with a spider would be a good idea and are hard to miss
This is what F32 looks like on the Tokina - was playing with it and forgot I mean, not great for pixel peeping purposes, but on the other hand, I can't actually think of what the total combination of effective aperture is here (so... m43 doubles it with the crop factor, plus the raynox bringing it to 1.85x magnification, from f32 to begin with?)
Other little friends...
Miscellaneous bugs many of which I will pretend to know what they are if asked.
Tokina 90 again.
First cicada of this season, that I've seen, anyway. Ran into the stream of the hose while I was watering the garden and crashed out, dusted him off a little and let him dry out on some wattle, which I now see he was trying to tap for juice.
Hey uhh... one of these! The bright line is actually a bright white line in that spot, it's honestly not a flash burn
Have always wanted to get a set of a hoverfly swiveling its whole head around cleaning that was all of acceptable quality (like, in the same sequence) and I think I got it finally
M.Zuiko 60mm 2.8 / Raynox 150
Ahh now. Absurdly pissed about both of these next two
Tokina 90 / Raynox 250 again.
^ the ONE NIGHT I don't check the yard I find this sitting high up in the hibiscus at 6.30am getting warmed up and extremely angry. Didn't really feel like taking it down from there, it looked uh, pretty mad, even for a wasp, so only got some crappy shots from holding the camera above my head. The same day while I was planting some marigold seeds I heard this angry (even for a wasp) buzzing noise and a huge splat on the leaf litter next to me on the front steps. It's this thing and another wasp (a small paper wasp - brown ones in here) having a battle, and this guy pwned the other guy to death, leaving it spasming its stinger on the ground upside down. Paper wasp queen? Potters wasp? Hornet? I dunno, I'm kind of hoping not to run into it again in daylight at this point
Just about to give up for the night last night ... found this guy on a barren understory bit of our huge bottlebrush tree. Tried to get a background behind this guy, kept falling off the twig I was putting it on. Go to get the twig it's on off the tree and mount it on my modelling thing ... hangs on to the twig you see here just fine while I snip it off, sweet. Twig gets caught on something and snags, still hangs on. Twig snaps back and sproings this guy away like something out of a cartoon. Aaaaa! It's a really pretty one and I only just got a photo of it that works if you don't look too closely. Can't even fit the end of the ovipositor thing in in 21:9 in the full size pic
M.Zuiko 60mm 2.8 / Raynox 150
^ Native bee, very small, flat out trying to even get something useful for a crop at 1.58x.
^ very small wasp, bit smaller than european honey bees. Have been revisting the field this guy was in for a couple of days - perfect unmowed 1/4 acre block full of weeds and tall grass. And mosquitos
in... spiders...
E-P5 / Tokina AT-X 90mm F2.5 / Raynox 250
^ almost every one of these is from .25 seconds before the spider jumped onto the camera or flash diffuser (that's what it's looking at when it's not looking straight into the lens). Supposedly these green jumping spiders (no really, the country that brought you the brown snake now brings you another imaginatively named animal
) are australia's largest jumping spiders but I've never seen any one of them I'd call particularly big in comparison to any other. And after a year of looking I've still never seen a male - the males look like someone thought crossing a mandril with a spider would be a good idea and are hard to miss This is what F32 looks like on the Tokina - was playing with it and forgot
I mean, not great for pixel peeping purposes, but on the other hand, I can't actually think of what the total combination of effective aperture is here (so... m43 doubles it with the crop factor, plus the raynox bringing it to 1.85x magnification, from f32 to begin with?)Other little friends...
Miscellaneous bugs many of which I will pretend to know what they are if asked.
Tokina 90 again.
First cicada of this season, that I've seen, anyway. Ran into the stream of the hose while I was watering the garden and crashed out, dusted him off a little and let him dry out on some wattle, which I now see he was trying to tap for juice.
Hey uhh... one of these!
The bright line is actually a bright white line in that spot, it's honestly not a flash burn 
Have always wanted to get a set of a hoverfly swiveling its whole head around cleaning that was all of acceptable quality (like, in the same sequence) and I think I got it finally
M.Zuiko 60mm 2.8 / Raynox 150
Ahh now. Absurdly pissed about both of these next two
Tokina 90 / Raynox 250 again.
^ the ONE NIGHT I don't check the yard I find this sitting high up in the hibiscus at 6.30am getting warmed up and extremely angry. Didn't really feel like taking it down from there, it looked uh, pretty mad, even for a wasp, so only got some crappy shots from holding the camera above my head. The same day while I was planting some marigold seeds I heard this angry (even for a wasp) buzzing noise and a huge splat on the leaf litter next to me on the front steps. It's this thing and another wasp (a small paper wasp - brown ones in here) having a battle, and this guy pwned the other guy to death, leaving it spasming its stinger on the ground upside down. Paper wasp queen? Potters wasp? Hornet? I dunno, I'm kind of hoping not to run into it again in daylight at this point
Just about to give up for the night last night ... found this guy on a barren understory bit of our huge bottlebrush tree. Tried to get a background behind this guy, kept falling off the twig I was putting it on. Go to get the twig it's on off the tree and mount it on my modelling thing ... hangs on to the twig you see here just fine while I snip it off, sweet. Twig gets caught on something and snags, still hangs on. Twig snaps back and sproings this guy away like something out of a cartoon. Aaaaa! It's a really pretty one and I only just got a photo of it that works if you don't look too closely. Can't even fit the end of the ovipositor thing in in 21:9 in the full size pic
M.Zuiko 60mm 2.8 / Raynox 150
^ Native bee, very small, flat out trying to even get something useful for a crop at 1.58x.
^ very small wasp, bit smaller than european honey bees. Have been revisting the field this guy was in for a couple of days - perfect unmowed 1/4 acre block full of weeds and tall grass. And mosquitos
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Better just posting the best ones lol
Love the first hoverfy image great light
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