New digital camera. Fairly cheap, since I'm a newbie.And a couple of dull days and a sick day, so I'm inside, playing with it. I pulled out a few boxes of bugs and bones to practice with close-ups and the software that came with the camera. (Lousy, by the way.)
Here's a sample. Not too great, as yet, but I see possibilities. Let it rain!
The first is a bald-faced wasp. A big guy.
A skull of a bird, sunbleached. Found beside Boundary Bay beach. Probably a seagull.
A wasp's nest, abandoned early in the building. You can see the one cell where a larva was developing. The little bump at the bottom was a kind of stem and anchor.A chickadee feather, for size comparison.
And a small mushroom.
A small wasp.
An unidentified bug.
A conifer borer, that, with the aid of his family, destroyed Laurie's favourite spruce tree. Bottom view.
The small wasp, a couple of seeds from a weed found near Chase, in the BC interior, a mushroom from the same area, that unidentified bug, belly up, and a dime for comparison.
I love close ups and macros. We generally look at things quickly and miss the interesting details. The photos allow time for close inspection.
ReplyDeleteRuth
Isn't playing with a new digital camera GREAT fun? I got one for my birthday, and have been concentrating on the zoom feature. I haven't started in on macro yet.
ReplyDeleteThe unidentified bug looks to me like a stink bug. We have them here in PA (google it and see what they look like). Not sure if they are indigenous to the Canadian northwest.
The unidentified shield-shaped bug is probably a stink bug. If you see any live ones, DON'T SQUISH THEM! Bad things happen when you squish a stink bug...
ReplyDeleteThe unidentified shield-shaped bug is probably a stink bug. If you see any live ones, DON'T SQUISH THEM! Bad things happen when you squish a stink bug...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mara.
ReplyDeleteYes, now I recognize it; I've seen quite a few since. And I almost never squish bugs, so that's not a worry.