{"id":775,"date":"2006-12-14T02:38:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T02:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2015-08-09T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T08:58:19","slug":"its-a-bugs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Bug&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl1.jpg\"><br \/>\nI am no anthropologist, so these insects will go largely unlabelled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl2.jpg\"><br \/>\nOoo, the light.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl4.jpg\"><br \/>\nYep, from ages ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=746\">reversed-lens super macro method<\/a>! Continued from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=747\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=748\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl3.jpg\"><br \/>\nWith flash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl5.jpg\"><br \/>\nAgain, with flash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl6.jpg\"><br \/>\nWithout flash. Running insects are hard to keep in focus and in view; you&#8217;d tend to focus on the floor instead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl7.jpg\"><br \/>\nIn the beginning&#8230; (picture downsized so as to not draw focus to possibly deappetizing subject.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl18.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis is a crop from before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl20.jpg\"><br \/>\nSuperfly!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl8.jpg\"><br \/>\nUh, what? (Even at F8.0, darkest aperture for my Canon Powershot A520, it was out of focus.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl9.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis critter ran all over the leaf.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl10.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis one was oblivious.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl11.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;<i>Where&#8217;s my stash?<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl12.jpg\"><br \/>\nMost insects can be approached from above slowly; they are very sensitive to motion from the side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl14.jpg\"><br \/>\nPollen!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl13.jpg\"><br \/>\nA primitive pentapod.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl15.jpg\"><br \/>\nHibiscus. I think.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl16.jpg\"><br \/>\nEscape pod.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl17.jpg\"><br \/>\nLovebuds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/abl19.jpg\"><br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s really eating its home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am no anthropologist, so these insects will go largely unlabelled. Ooo, the light. Yep, from ages ago, the reversed-lens super macro method! Continued from this and this. With flash. Again, with flash. Without flash. Running insects are hard to keep in focus and in view; you&#8217;d tend to focus on the floor instead. 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