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You guys might have seen these before, but not highlighted per se.

I always like to get a side on perspective or front perspective ... the ant would turn and run at me pretty much every time ... never got one of him running at me as i aws too busy trying to not get bitten.

The shagging bugs were hopping around all over the place. I'd lie on the dirt and wriggle closer and closer ... until they hop off somewhere else.

The last bug was just a big friendly somethingarather, grasshopper?

Defender of the tribe





What are you looking at?



Debauchery in nature ;


Hey man, where can I get a beer? its hot out here.

Great photos. Love the DOF and detail of the bugs

Those bull-ants are agro little buggers, I tried to get a shot of one once (only had the kit lens with me at the time) but he kept coming at me, so I just got out of his way!

That last Grass-hopper is a big'n!

Great detail in the shots... Geesss I think it's bug week here

The picture of the ants are great and I love the detail in the tiny little pebbles around him/ her

How on eart do you focus on something so small with such shallow DOF, great work!

That last one is HUGE! the biggest grass hopper we get over here can't be any bigger than an inch or so. That one must have been on 'roids!

CC

Darb - no critique needed - great shots

bah.... The pics are loading for me....

mudder wrote:Those bull-ants are agro little buggers, I tried to get a shot of one once (only had the kit lens with me at the time) but he kept coming at me, so I just got out of his way!

That last Grass-hopper is a big'n!

Great detail in the shots... Geesss I think it's bug week here

man tell me about, I'd lie down along side him and start trying to nail the focus etc ... then he'd turn and run full speed toward me.

Dont know about you, but if something 900,000 times my size and weight with a RPG the size of a sky scraper was trying to take my photo i wouldnt charge at him.

Smart little suckers those ants, I've watched some very itneresting doco's on ants, their societies, particularly in africa.

Damn they hurt !

Charlie Chalk wrote:How on eart do you focus on something so small with such shallow DOF, great work!

That last one is HUGE! the biggest grass hopper we get over here can't be any bigger than an inch or so. That one must have been on 'roids!

CC

getting dirtty, and looking like a nugget rolling around in the gravel with a camera

yeah those hoppers were HUGE ... man you should see what they did to the front of our car, thankfully it was a hire car

the big one is from : http://darb.net/northern-sojourn/ (mostly just sony P&S camera.)

KerryPierce wrote:bah.... The pics are loading for me....

That should have said, are not....

But, now they are.

Those are excellent macros, darb. Very nicely done!