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Tick and dog taken with a Dlux-4.
Jan
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The dog survived, by the way.
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Jan!!:eek: T'is the season, here, too, but that is one grossly overloaded tick! Excellent close up and color, however. I'm very glad the dog pictured is AOK.

I hate ticks. I've pulled off too many to even want to think about from all of my own dogs over the years. I enjoy cremating the ones I get off.;)
 
We live in a tick area. As soon it is getting warmer ticks are awaking. In March the air was quite warm and the cat and all three dogs brought ticks home. In summer the situation is better.
Our technic is to drown them in soap water. A bath in oil is not bad too.
The foto is the first and only time I used the focus following technic of the Dlux-4. The tick moved pretty fast, namely.
Jan
 
Very cool about the "focus following technic of the Dlux-4", Jan. I'm surprised that grossly filled tick could move so quickly. Glad you nailed him - trial by drowning in soapy water.
 
The first visitor to my wild flower bed

I sowed a bed with wild flower seed almost 3 weeks ago, so far there has been very poor germination of the seeds, not sure if i raked them in too deep or my local Wood Pigeons have been eating the emerging shots.

I was watering the bed this afternoon due to our unseasonally dry weather and this little guy appeared. It was undeterred by the water from the hose although I took care to hose around it rather than at it.

It's a Holly Blue butterfly and will be extracting minerals from the damp soil.

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Panasonic G1 with 100-300mm Panasonic lens, zoomed to 300mm. The image has not been cropped.

Barrie
 
Some Moths from last night

These are all very fresh, so newly emerged, specimens from the catch in a moth trap that I ran last night. All images were obtained using a Panasonic G1 with 45mm, f/2.8 Leica DG Macro-Elmarit. The images have been minimally post processed in Bibble Pro 5 and are not cropped. Non of the moths has a forewing longer than about 20mm on the leading edge.

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Brimstone Moth

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Streamer

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Marbled Coronet

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Knotgrass

Barrie
 
The exceptionally warm and settled weather in the south of the UK has been good news for many insects. I obtained these images from a weekly butterfly transect that I carried out today.
These were obtained with a Panasonic G1 fitted with a 100-300mm Panasonic lens, there was minimal post processing in Bibble Pro 5 and no cropping of the image.

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A mating pair of Green-veined White

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My first Common Blue of the year, a male, possibly 2-3 weeks earlier than normal.

Barrie
 
very nice coloring!

The exceptionally warm and settled weather in the south of the UK has been good news for many insects. I obtained these images from a weekly butterfly transect that I carried out today.
These were obtained with a Panasonic G1 fitted with a 100-300mm Panasonic lens, there was minimal post processing in Bibble Pro 5 and no cropping of the image.

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A mating pair of Green-veined White

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My first Common Blue of the year, a male, possibly 2-3 weeks earlier than normal.

Barrie
 
well, spiders are arachnids but lets not split cilia ... here's a bee ... not super-sharp macro stuff by any means but the wings are nice in this one ...

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E-P2, Asahi Super-Takumar 105/2.8 (M42), 1/160s, f/5.6ish, ISO200

EDIT: I've just put my glasses on and realise how overprocessed this one is! So I'll leave it here as a dire warning to others ...
 
Now this one, your bee - I think is beautiful. The graphic nature with the out of focus-ness works absolutely wonderfully, I think. This could be an illustration in a children's book. Those wings are quite amazing...but it's precisely the unrealistic nature of this one that makes it sing to me.
 
It's hideously overprocessed, of course ... looks best if you take your glasses off!
In fact Now I have put mine on and looked closely, I'm a bit embarrassed by it to be honest ...
 
Oh, don't be - I like it. You could, if you wanted to - tone down the definition or "clarity" or whatever it is called in your software... To me the softer the better for this one - I like the effect even better w/o my glasses.
 
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