Ironwoods Backyard Critters

[Ironwood]

Bathippus montrouzieri

 

[Scott Murray]

@Ironwood you are nearly convincing me to buy a 105mm

 

[Ironwood]

@Ironwood you are nearly convincing me to buy a 105mm

I am quite happy with mine Scott

 

[Ironwood]

Euryattus bleekeri

 

[Ironwood]

Smiley Spider

 

[Ironwood]

This seemed to be some sort of insect, it has some serious camouflage.

 

[Ironwood]

Prancer

 

[Marilynne]

Prancer
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Doesn't look like one of Santa's reindeer.

 

[Scott Murray]

This seemed to be some sort of insect, it has some serious camouflage.

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Its another nymph possibly a lacewing nymph.

 

[Ironwood]

Doesn't look like one of Santa's reindeer.

Wait until I get a photo of Rudolph

 

[PapaST]

This is a GREAT thread... thanks for sharing. Sorry if you covered this but what is your light source setup? Incredible photos Ironwood.

 

[Ironwood]

This is a GREAT thread... thanks for sharing. Sorry if you covered this but what is your light source setup? Incredible photos Ironwood.

Thanks Papa.

For lighting on the macro shots, I have been using the cameras onboard flash with the "Scott Murray" foam diffuser on the end of the lens. Simple but effective.
Scott has put some photos and description in his thread here, so I won't go into it in detail, better to get it straight from the source.
http://nikonites.com/macro/20481-everything-you-needed-know-about-macro.html#axzz2yS4WK6BO
My version is a little different looking to Scotts, but same principal, I will take a photo of mine later and post it here.

I just noticed Scott has another thread as well - http://nikonites.com/macro/21901-my-macro.html#axzz2yS4WK6BO

 

[Just-Clayton]

Great shots. Now for some warm weather and a 105 for my 610. Like you my job works me from dusk till dawn and no time to shoot.

 

[Ironwood]

Some critters I snapped in the backyard this afternoon...

Rainbow Lorikeet.

I think this is a Drongo.

Rock Wallaby.

 

[Ironwood]

Some shots I took in the last couple of days but didn't get a chance to post them...

 

[Krs_2007]

@Ironwood, never seen conjoined moths before.. I guess love is in there air everywhere. I hope to find some critters this weekend to shoot, really like your shots but haven't been able to lately.

 

[Ironwood]

@Ironwood, never seen conjoined moths before.. I guess love is in there air everywhere. I hope to find some critters this weekend to shoot, really like your shots but haven't been able to lately.

Hi Kevin, I cant recall seeing Moths like that before either.
I hope you find some quality time on the weekend to do some shooting.

 

[Lee532]

Realy enjoying the thread Brad, great shots. Keep em coming.

 

[Scott Murray]

Great shots, my critters have been a bit scarce of late. I missed a couple of finches yesterday.

 

[Ironwood]

Realy enjoying the thread Brad, great shots. Keep em coming.

Thanks Lee, I'm glad you are liking my shots of my little world.

Great shots, my critters have been a bit scarce of late. I missed a couple of finches yesterday.

It's funny isn't it, I can get home and do a few chores noticing the wildlife all around the place, then after I have finished, I can get the camera out and walk around for a half hour and only get a couple of shots .

Rained all afternoon here, so I didn't even take the camera out of the bag. Its not looking too good for the next couple of days either, they have that cyclone tracking down parallel with the coast, so we are in for some bad weather tomorrow and Monday.