rocksea and sarah » insects of sapporo http://www.rocksea.org Experiments with prakriti; our own & life around. For educational, environmental & entertainment purposes. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:58:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Intimacy with Insects: mayfly on my keyboard http://www.rocksea.org/intimacy-with-insects-mayfly-on-my-keyboard http://www.rocksea.org/intimacy-with-insects-mayfly-on-my-keyboard#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 14:22:39 +0000 rocksea http://www.rocksea.org/intimacy-with-insects-mayfly-on-my-keyboard mayfly-amimekagerou * Mayfly on my keyboard. Mayflys are aquatic insects where the immature stage occurs in fresh water (called naiads). The adults are short-lived, maybe as little as a few hours to a day or two, depending on the species. * 1024 x 766 * (97KB)
 
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Took this long back, when I bought the camera and was inspecting it. It was night and the picture is a bit pixellated in the flourescent light. Its golden bronze eyes have come out well. Mayflys are aquatic insects where the immature stage occurs in fresh water (called naiads). The adults are short-lived, maybe as little as a few hours to a day or two, depending on the species.
]]> http://www.rocksea.org/intimacy-with-insects-mayfly-on-my-keyboard/feed 7 Intimacy with Insects: lady bug http://www.rocksea.org/intimacy-with-insects http://www.rocksea.org/intimacy-with-insects#comments Sun, 21 May 2006 13:47:13 +0000 rocksea http://www.rocksea.org/intimacy-with-insects Intimacy with the subjects you photograph makes the whole activity warm and memorable.

I was photographing this lonely lady bug (ya thought of giving some company) …

lady-bug-1 * Lady Bug @ Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens, Sapporo. * 1024 x 766 * (138KB)

.. and it flew on to my white jacket and started climbing up so close to the camera that I could get only one shot of it

lady-bug-2 * The Lady Bug flew on to my jacket while I was photographing it. Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens, Sapporo. * 1024 x 766 * (75KB)

So I could get two contrasting buggy shots of the same subject in different environments

Photographed from Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens
Olympus C770 + MCON-40 macro lens

 

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