Tag Archive: fly

Dec
26

Best Photos Of 2011

This post is part of the very excellent ‘Your Best Photos From 2011” blog project run by Jim M. Goldstein, a very worthy project to be involved in to get your photos seen and also to see amazing photos from other photographers from around the world. This show cases some of the ones I feel are my …

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Nov
08

Help Me Identify This Critter [Updated: Identified!]

  Updated – Now identified! Thanks to an amazingly fast turn around by the Queensland Museum the mystery creature has been identified as a fly belonging to the family Nemestrinidae and the genus Atriadops more commonly known as ‘Tangle-veined Flies’. This particular fly is a female of the species so the scary looking protrusion is in fact a ovipositor used in egg …

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May
26

Treading The Wire: Learning Macro DOF Control

Over the last few weeks I’ve done a lot of reading on photography, macro photography in particular and I made a discovery. I had basically been Doing It Wrong. Well not so much as wrong as I had fundamentally misunderstood the effect of aperture size on Depth Of Field and why the largest possible aperture wasn’t always …

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