Residents in Aotearoa: A macro of a micro

Sunday, 5 June 2022

A macro of a micro

I was confused. Why are the pictures I'm showing you in this post examples of macro photography? I know that 'macro' refers to something large. 'Micro' refers to something small. I'm taking pictures of small bugs, so how come they are macro pictures?

The answer is that in these photos, the subject fills most, or at least a large part of the frame. So, you get a lot of detail; you get a macro picture of a micro object.

I took these pictures during this past summer, 2022, not long after I took photos and published no less than three posts about bees. I thought then, that you had probably seen enough of that sort of thing.

Some time has passed now and to mix things up a bit, I decided to show some more insects.

For these pictures, I wandered past the rows of personal garden plots and started shooting when I saw flies or wasps or moths working the flowers.

These last two are my favorites.

That's what 1/1000 of a second looks like.

I've got lots more of these. And for all the close-up and personal time I spent with these critters, many of them armed with some nasty weaponry, I never got stung. -djf

2 comments:

Dianne8 June 2022 at 14:03
It's amazing how much detail you can see on these tiny creatures when you zoom in! Green flies with red eyes
Villainous long legged wasps
Watch out you plump fuzzy bees!

See what you did? you got me talking to them. I love those last two pictures too! She looks more like a plump bird than a bug!
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Doug Foster8 June 2022 at 15:09
Lots more to show you all, but I'll save them for a while. I'm glad you like them.
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My deer blind, a place outside of time and space.

This is a picture of my deer hunting blind. I built in in 1975 and used it until about 2010. I'm publishing this picture and text on November 15 of 2022, the opening day of Michigan's rifle deer hunting season, to remember all the years I spent sitting there and occasionally harvesting a deer. I think that the meat I provided for my family was only a small portion of the benefit I received from hunting in this manner. Of greater value to me was the time I spent alone, watching the forest and its many components interact. I had time to unwind from the stresses of my work, to appreciate our world, and even sometimes to pray. That blind was a refuge to me. It was cozy, and comfortable and I spent much more time filming the activities of not only deer, but bears, racoons, turkeys, squirrels, hawks, and once, even a snowy owl, than I did harvesting deer. May I suggest to all of you that you try to find some time and a place, where you can be alone, and where you can ponder and appreciate your life and your place in the world. It does a body good. -djf