Sunday, June 26, 2011

Snapshot Sunday: A Matter of Scale

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Native ladybug on green twill trousers.

Mystery insect. Ailanthus webworm moth.

Swallowtail

Milkweed flowers

Cole and Mommy.

8 comments:

  1. Mystery insect looks like an Ailanthus Webworm Moth.

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  2. Mystery insect looks like an Ailanthus webworm moth. Probably migrated north this spring.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_webworm

    Nice macros!

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  3. Wow - thanks for bending my brain a bit!

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  4. Thanks for the bug ID!

    It didn't look like any kind of moth in person; it wasn't until I saw the zoomed-in photo that I thought it might be one, but still wasn't sure.

    If it eats ghetto palm, it is welcome to vacation up north.

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  5. This is so very cool... :-)

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  6. The one lens I have yet to enlist in my arsenal is a solid macro lens. I don't do enough of this kind of shooting to justify it, though the new primary isn't nearly as good as the general purpose lens I had previously at this range.

    Nice pics, Heather.

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  7. I'm constantly second-guessing going with a high-end compact rather than a digital SLR.

    I look at photos and think, "With a better camera and the right lens, that would have been such a better picture."

    And then I admit, "I wouldn't have carried a much larger camera or the proper lens with me in the first place."

    It's a quandary.

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  8. Why I don't spend much time at the LA Canon Digital Group: they are so hopelessly better than me.

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