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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 833016" data-attributes="member: 50197">I'll post a few here rather than swamp my 365 with macro shots. I will likely be taking a lot of macro in the next few months, and back down a little on the birds. Saw a little more variety in the offerings in the backyard this morning. Despite my resolution to shoot more available light, I decided to do these with flash. They were deeper in the foliage and I didn't think I'd have enough light for available light shots. I would have liked to do some focus stacks on the beetle, but he was moving a tad too much for that, plus, it was a little low to the ground. That made it awkward to shoot a bunch of images from the same perspective. I was pleased to get an interaction between the beetle and an ant. I saw it coming, and wondered if the beetle was going to invite the ant to brunch. The ant just walked up to the beetle and put her head up against him. Not sure what that was about. In the second one, I saw the ant just walking by and thought perhaps the assassin bug would make a small meal of the ant, but he didn't seem interested. Maybe the ant was too small. [ATTACH=full]419277[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]419278[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]419279[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 833016, member: 50197"] I'll post a few here rather than swamp my 365 with macro shots. I will likely be taking a lot of macro in the next few months, and back down a little on the birds. Saw a little more variety in the offerings in the backyard this morning. Despite my resolution to shoot more available light, I decided to do these with flash. They were deeper in the foliage and I didn't think I'd have enough light for available light shots. I would have liked to do some focus stacks on the beetle, but he was moving a tad too much for that, plus, it was a little low to the ground. That made it awkward to shoot a bunch of images from the same perspective. I was pleased to get an interaction between the beetle and an ant. I saw it coming, and wondered if the beetle was going to invite the ant to brunch. The ant just walked up to the beetle and put her head up against him. Not sure what that was about. In the second one, I saw the ant just walking by and thought perhaps the assassin bug would make a small meal of the ant, but he didn't seem interested. Maybe the ant was too small. [ATTACH type="full"]419277[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]419278[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]419279[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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