So cute – can you see him smiling? Featured in Photography 101
its taken me a while to think of a black only design. but here it is Geisha Gaze mikoto.com.au
I know there’s beautiful ladybird images on RB but this is the first one I’ve ever taken so I though I would share anyway, this one was sitting on a fushia flower… This image has also been purchased as a matted print, thank you once again to the buyer :o)
Taken Canon Rebel Xt / Pro9
Two more in the series after this one… Enjoy!!
Green tree frog on Magnolia Soulangea
Green tree frog on Magnolia soulangea. Just looking cute.
My origami calendar I folded the mother duck out of trace paper around the time I saw ducklings on the way to work; can read about that here. I can’t remember how big the paper was; I believe 13×13mm. The two little ducklings in the centre were folded from 6×6mm pieces of trace paper while the little one at the back was folded from a 5×5mm piece of trace paper. I know mother duck is just behind the 4cm mark, but the duckling at the back is infront of the 1cm mark, hence the duck family is a 3cm spread ^ _ ^ New version added August 21, 2008 / Looks great on a card! Although maybe distracting at work; lol. / Also available at Zazzle / This work has been featured in: / Ebony and Ivory / Numbers One to a Trillion / Waterfowl / Little Things To Make You Smile / Weekly Theme Challenges / Color Me a Rainbow / Boredom Competitions on the 24/7 / / Works by Category Origami / Drawings,Paintings and Graphics Flowers, Trees and Plants / Water and Waterscapes / Scenery/Skyscapes / Light, Shadow, and Reflections / Still Life Living Creatures / Human Portrait Japanfluence / Canada / Europe / / / More Sample Origami / / / / / / / / / / / ‘Serenity’, the Firefly spacecraft (My own design) / / / / / / / /
Jumping Spider (Olympus 510) / The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and over 5,000 species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species (Peng et al., 2002). Jumping spiders have good vision and use it for hunting and navigating. They are capable of jumping from place to place, secured by a silk tether. Both their book lungs and the tracheal system are well-developed, as they depend on both systems (bimodal breathing). Jumping spiders are generally diurnal, active hunters. Their well developed internal hydraulic system extends their limbs by altering the pressure of body fluid (blood) within them. This enables the spiders to jump without having large muscular legs like a grasshopper. The jumping spider can therefore jump 20 to 60 or even 75-80 times the length of their body. When a jumping spider is moving from place to place, and especially just before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk to whatever it is standing on. Should it fall for one reason or another, it climbs back up the silk tether. Jumping spiders are Scopula bearing spiders, which means that they have a very interesting Tarsal section. And the end of each leg they have hundreds of tiny hairs, which each then split into hundreds more tiny hairs, each tipped with an “end foot”. These thousands of tiny feet allow them to climb up and across virtually any terrain. They can even climb up glass by gripping onto the tiny imperfections, usually an impossible task for any spider. Jumping spiders also use their silk to weave small tent-like dwellings where females can protect their eggs, and which also serve as a shelter while moulting. Jumping spiders are known for their curiosity. If approached by a human hand, instead of scuttling away to safety as most spiders do, the jumping spider will usually leap and turn to face the hand. Further approach may result in the spider jumping backwards while still eyeing the hand. The tiny creature will even raise its forelimbs and “hold its ground”. Because of this contrast to other arachnids, the jumping spider is regarded as inquisitive as it is seemingly interested in whatever approaches it. (Wiki)
My sister in laws kitty, Shelbie.
East Greenbush, NY USA / Olympus E510 / The Megachilidae are a cosmopolitan family of (mostly) solitary bees whose pollen-carrying structure (called a scopa) is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families). Megachilid genera are most commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, reflecting the materials they build their nest cells from (soil or leaves, respectively); a few collect plant or animal hairs and fibers, and are called carder bees. All species feed on nectar and pollen, but a few are cleptoparasites (informally called “cuckoo bees”), feeding on pollen collected by other megachilid bees. Parasitic species do not possess a scopa. The brightly colored scopa leads to a colloquial name used occasionally in North America – “Jelly-belly bees.” Megachilid bees are among the world’s most efficient pollinators because of their energetic swimming-like motion in the reproductive structures of flowers, which moves pollen, as needed for pollination. Ironically, one of the reasons they are efficient pollinators is their frequency of visits to plants, but this is because they are extremely inefficient at gathering pollen; compared to all other bee families, megachilids require on average nearly ten times as many trips to flowers to gather sufficient resources to provision a single brood cell. / North America has many native megachilid species, but Alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) are an imported species used for pollination. The most significant native species is Osmia lignaria (the “Orchard Mason Bee” or “Blue Orchard Bee”), which is sold commercially for use in orchard crop pollination, and which can be attracted to nest in wooden blocks with holes drilled in them (which are also sold commercially for this purpose). (wiki) /
Another Older Photograph I felt like submitting. Water drop & glitter on a petal :-) Canon 400D / Canon 100mm Macro lens
Two little Australian gum beetles having a game of hide and seek, taken in Tasmania, Australia. Taken with a Canon DSLR and Canon 100mm macro lens, with a sturdy tripod. Natural Light. My New 2010 Calender Featured in the following groups / Flowers in Macro / Australian Wildlife / A Beautiful Blur / Insects, bugs and creepy crawlies July 2009 / Backyard Close Ups Aug 2009 / Another one of my bug images has been featured on red bubble home page / the image is called Peek A Boo! / Another one of my bug images has been featured on red bubble home page / the image is called White Valley! Two home page features in one week….so excited. thank you all…* /
My little hopper was captured using a DSLR with a Canon 100mm macro lens and tripod. Photographed in Tasmania, Australia. Great card for any occassion…. / This image has been featured on the / Red Bubble home page March 2009 / Another one of my bug images has been featured on red bubble home page the image is called White Valley! Two home page features in one week….so excited. thank you all… / This image is also on page 10 of Red Bubble all time favourite images… see here />My New 2010 Calender / Chalenges Won / 1:1 Macro Photography Group: Won the March Avatar Challenge / A Photographer’s Craft group: Won February Challenge / The Woman Photographer Group: Macro Bugs Challenge and itty bitty teeny tiny (ie..very small) challenge FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: / Bubble $uccess Stories Sept 09 / Featured Only Sept 2009 / 1:1 Macro Photography Feb 2009 / A Photographer’s Craft Feb 2009 / Featured Only Aug 2009 / Canon DSLR Group Feb 2009 / The Woman Photographer March 2009 / Extreme Close-Ups March 2009 / All The Colors of the Rainbow April 2009 / Australian Wildlife June 2009 / Focus and Lighting July 2009 / If it doesn’t belong Sept 2009 / ! Bubble $uccess Stories ! I found this tiny little Australian Grasshopper hopping around in my vegi patch. The flowers photographed in this image where also from my garden. / Photographing grasshoppers was new to me when I found this little guy in my garden, he was so green and cute I had to try and get a photo of him. / He didn’t sit still for long, I had a few seconds, but when he looked straight at me I knew (hoped) this is going to be very special. !another one of my bug pics called White Valley! has been featured on red bubble home page March 2009 / Two home page features in one week….so excited. thank you all… / http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u58/gamam1/congratulations8.jpg / yeyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!
This image was captured in the highlands of Tasmania, using a Canon DSLR and a 100mm Canon macro lens and always a tripod.. / This image has been featured on / red bubble home page Two home page features in one week….so excited. thank you all…! / / My New 2010 Calender !features.jpghttp://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u58/gamam1/congratulations8.jpg! White Valley has been featured in the folowing groups / The Woman Photographer Feb 2009 / 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE Feb 2009 / Butterflies, Skippers, Feb 2009 / Ladybugs Feb 2009 / Focus and Lighting July 2009 / Your Accepted / See my other pic featured on home page this week March 2009 /
Savannah More to come in this series :D CLICK FOR FULL VIEW Canon 400D / Canon 100mm USM Macro lens / 500/500 Studio Lighting / Post processing: Desaturated slightly /
meet our new little friend bubbles (daughter choose name) – a lovely little baby red eyed green tree frog. still trying to get a good shot of her/his mate freddo, but he is v. shy… trying out my new kenko macro tubes with 50mm 1.4 nikkor lens ISO:400 / f/stop: f/4.5 / shutter speed: 1/80 these little guys are v. tiny – not much bigger than my finger nail…
our lovely little red eyed green tree frog… these little guys are v. tiny – not much bigger than my finger nail… trying out my new kenko macro tubes with 50mm 1.4 nikkor lens ISO:400 / f/stop: f/4.5 / shutter speed: 1/80
taken on a nikon d80 with kenko macro tubes & 50mm 1.4 nikkor lens ISO: 250 / f/stop: f/5.6 / shutter speed: 1/250 this shot didn’t turn out too well because i moved it, but you can see how tiny he/she still is compared to my fingers… sold a matted print to the lovely and v. talented Rhana Griffin
I made a calendar for those of you who wants to see him all year around :) Featured on Toys and Puppets Group in April 2009 / Featured on The Woman Photographer group in May 2009
~quote by by Hubert Humprey. I think Danbo has finally found love…and this time she is the right size for him! lol :) well this is my latest craze….i saw these cute lil dolls and I am just crazy about them! As soon as i saw them i knew i just had to collect them all :P Each Kimmidoll has her own meaning, representing one of "lifes true values". Kimmidolls were based on the Japanese Kokeshi dolls, which were handcrafted by peasant farmers as tokens of love or friendship. I just love them because they’re fun, cute, and all have such beautiful designs on their "dresses". I already have 3 of them so far and i will be getting more coz i just luv them so much! I will introduce you with each one my kimmidolls individually…will take pics of them soon and will tell you their meanings too ;-)
Saw this frog hanging outside the glass of my dinning room window. The grass from the backyard made up the background. Photo By: Jose O. Mediavilla
I had a vision to turn my colorful bug images into sepia toned black and white images with a touch of color. But didn’t know how, until today….. So a big thank you to two wonderful people here at Red bubble, Diane Schuster for all her help in teaching me and also to Prasad for his very helpful tutorial… / Love to know what you all think of my new work…..photograph taken in Tasmania, Australia, using a 100mm Canon macro lens and Canon DSLR. My New 2010 Calender *FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: / A Photographer’s Craft / Depth Of Field / Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! *
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