Post your best Macro shots

[freelanceshots]

wasp gathering at the entrance to their nest. I'm inches away from these guys so I'm nervous. They where moving fast and I could just not gain enough shutter to stop all the movement. f/16 ISO 1600 shutter 1/20, handheld so that I could move fast.


These critters give a nasty sting plus I'm allergic. I don't die if I'm stung it just makes me sick for a couple of hours.





Brought out my 580 flash and flash cord and dropped the f-stop down to f/11





25% percent crop on this one as I don't usually do cropping but it lets you see these guys a little closer. The yellow headed one is the boss or the queen from what I can tell because the others could not leave it alone.

[freelanceshots]

A so called leaf bug from today. f/13 this time with my trusty 5D2 and 100mm IS macro. No sharpening done except my for my in camera setting.


While doing the setup and focusing this little bug had some fun with me. In the middle of shooting this little session I looked up to see it suddenly sprouted its wings and fly right at my face hitting me between my nose and my right eye. Even though this insect is pretty much harmless I let out a big yell as it startled me.


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[Rocco]

Holy crap! Where are you from Freelance?? Those look much different than the wasps here. This is what I'm used to seeing:


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[Dr Croubie]

That looks like what we call (in Australia), a European Wasp.


I saw one in a museum in Sweden, apprently they call them German wasps. Not sure what Germans call them though...

[Rocco]

That looks like what we call (in Australia), a European Wasp.


I saw one in a museum in Sweden, apprently they call them German wasps. Not sure what Germans call them though...

HAHA! Maybe they call them Australian Wasps? Or just "Vasps"? heh.

[Dr Croubie]

de.wikipedia.org/.../Deutsche_Wespe Yep, even the germans claim responsibility for them and call them the Deutsche Wespe, as does every other language on the "this page in other languages" (except the finnish and thai that I can't read). Strangely enough the icelandic just calls them 'house wasps'.


Still, it looks like the same one that is one of australia's worst introduced pests...


Those wasps freelance put up with the purple wings look more like australian native wasps, which i'd presume if he wasn't from the states.


And come to think of it, Denise, since when are bees metallic green? and with white stripes and not yellow?

[freelanceshots]

Rocco, we have yellows ones like that too. I