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Tiny Praying Mantis

March 28, 2010
Juvenile Praying Mantiz

My wife came in from the garden this morning, poked her head in my home office and said, “Hey, there’s a baby praying mantis on the chile plant. Interested?” Earlier this month, I’d purchased a set of extension tubes and badly needed practice using them, so I dropped what I was doing, grabbed the camera, [...]

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Extreme Hibiscus

March 11, 2010
Extreme closeup of a hibiscus stamen, anther and pistil, made with 12mm, 20mm and 36mm extension tubes on a Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens.

My wife got her Maui Master Gardener certification recently, which resulted in a sudden interest in very, very tiny insect species. One day, she brought in a leaf from the garden and asked me to photograph the bug that was on it, to which I replied, “What bug?” I couldn’t even see it with my glasses on. [...]

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