A Closer Look At Life

I have been taking a closer look at the natural world again.here is the result.

Praying Mantis Baby

This Baby Mantis is about 4mm long not sure if it is a leaf mantis or a stick Mantis as it is so tiny.

Here I was looking for bark texture when I spotted this "face" in the bark.

This photo is one of those anomalies that one finds in nature.
Some people will see faces and some wont it just depends on one's imagination

Heat Map

I was experimenting with this type of photograhy when I came up with these colours just so "cool".

Hidden Secrets

Again this tree bark revealed some hidden secrets that white blob is a larvae of some kind.

Here I found this screw in the tree all I can think of the original farmer or miner might have placed it there while prospecting for gold.

Spider & Wasp

In this photo if one looks carefully into the crack on the right a spider and a wasp are faced off, i don't know which one is hunting the other.
One way or the other it will end up as a bad day for one.

Twisted Life

These vines growing in the forest just made for an interesting photo.
This photo is a three shot HDR with the shots 1 F stop apart.

The left over rain from the previous night just an interesting exercise in still life.










For the technically minded the Camera is Pentax K7
The Lens is a Tamron 100mm macroF2.8
Flash gun is FZ 360 with a bodged flash disperser  made from opaque plastic drawing sheet.


All Comments are welcome.