Such tiny tiny detail.

[dpSparhawk]

I only wish I'd had an MPE-65 to get even closer

A rather blustery day today resulting in pretty much nothing about. However whilst pottering about the garden trying to locate a subject, I spotted this little fly on the stem of a flower (same one the Parasitoid wasp was on). Didn't think much of the overall capture of the bug but I was amazed by the fine detail on the stem.

I think I'm going to re-visit with all 3 ext. tubes and the tripod later to try and magnify those little orbs even more.






I cropped and resampled at 300 dpi to bring up those orbs a little more. Although ironically, as the forum downsizes images more than 800px Wide, the crop below doesn't look much different to the image above it was cropped from because the one above hasn't been resized... sigh! (PS Mods, can we get the 800px wide resample removed for the photography forum please? ) - Direct link to a 1024px wide version - http://ipc.smugmug.com/Close-Ups-Mac...G4832-copy.jpg

[darkstar]

Very nice Ian the orbs almost look as if there sticky great capture

[dpSparhawk]

Cheers mate

[cybollox]

Great detail buddy

[dpSparhawk]

Cheers Cliff.