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International Jumping Spider Day!
Today is International Jumping Spider Day. To celebrate, here are 10 photos of these beautiful creatures, all shot with the EM-10mk1 and 60mm. Most are with the Raynox-250.
I am lucky to live in a country (Singapore) where these guys are quite easy to find. They are honestly great macro subjects because of their huge eyes and the way they seem to stare right at the camera. Different species have different personalities and require different techniques - some will sit happily and let you stack shots, while others are very skittish and require you to anticipate where they will turn to and get ready with your shot.
I am also lucky to have stumbled onto the M43 system when I picked up photography 4 years ago. The camera was meant to be to take photos of my daughter, but along the way, I rediscovered my old love for spiders and insects. Unbeknownst to me, I had chosen the perfect system for macro - small, light, stable, increased reach, more depth of field while still maintaining superb IQ. Some complain that the working distance of the 60mm is too short but for me, it's just right and enables me to use a small and light diffuser to encapsulate my subject. A greater working distance will necessitate a bigger setup.
Anyway, Happy International Jumping Spider Day! Enjoy and please feel free to share comments and thoughts.17Oct 10, 2018 -
Honk! Parade...
The Honk! Festival describes themselves as "a festival of activist street bands". The festival is a 3-day affair, but "On Sunday, local community groups, artists, and activists working for a variety of progressive causes — economic justice, protecting the environment, world peace, an end to racism — join the brass bands to make a spectacular parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square along Mass Avenue." Sunday also happens to be Oktoberfest in Harvard Square so it's packed.
A few pix below. Way too many more in my flickr set. Taken with either my 12-100 or 40-150.2Oct 8, 2018 -
Mu-43 Photo Contest - FACES
The contest for October 2018 will be FACES (or face) The faces can be real or imagined, human or not.
A few samples.18Oct 4, 2018 -
The 300 Pro as a Landscape Lens
OK, I didn't buy this lens for landscapes. I bought it to make small birds larger, and as I got more experienced, I realized that what it is really good at is making large (close) birds clearer. But somedays the birds are somewhere else. And the 300 pro is too good to just put away, especially after you carried the brick up the side of some mountain. Lately it has taken a place in my landscape line-up. Here are a few photos from a recent trip. The 12-40 is used for comparison.
Mt Hesperus @ 31mm with the 12-40.
From the same vantage point on a different day, with the 300 Pro. Shot through some fog and a slight crop. Basically the same scene, but what a different perspective.
Piper Super Cub flies past the hanging glacier located mid-way up the left side of the first photo.
a long lens you give up all-encompasing views and gain compression. The foreground is about 1 1/2 miles from my location and the mountains, probably 6 miles.
waterfall shot on a different day, from a different location @ approximately 5 1/2 miles. This highlights some of the issues of shooting scenery at a longer distance with a large lens. Taken in light rain, details decrease with every mile, as evidenced by the lessening clarity of each successive ridge. Same issues with dust and especially with heat distortion on warmer days.
This same photo is massaged with a DXO preset using their Clearview and with the vibrance increased somewhat. While this works pretty well with moisture, I have never found anything to combat heat distortion. Shooting in the cooler hours is the only solution I have found....33Oct 3, 2018 -
A Few Pictures - Macro
An Open Invitation ... to anyone close enough, check this - Heir Apparent …
Bearded fly, knows his garden, has no doubt or depression. Lives his life as a warrior, no looking back.
Never a dull moment beetles from the bush. Must be the wild living, makes for living wild.
Ubiquitous garden fly, enjoying the pollen like any other sane creature does. Sane is not thinking about it …
Orange eyed hopper, can be gone in the blink of an eye – mine. A family oriented fellow,
Caterpillar enjoying the flower buds of a sweet-potato vine. It definitely favoured this milky food.
Sandpaper fig beetle, pregnant, and the three sisters know it. Parasitic wasps, I reckon, looking for opportunity to lay.
Lynx spider, ambusher with no instinct for blending in. Those spikes would be piercing, entrapping any passing prey.18Oct 4, 2018 -
Historic Route 66 pics.
I could not find any threads on the Route 66. Nevertheless, Route 66 still exists in various parts of the USA. So far I've been to various location in California and Arizona.
Route 66 goes from Illinois through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and ends in Santa Monica California.
Would be nice to have a thread with photos from what is left of the entire Route. And, photos of the Route that no longer exists.
Lets start backwards from California going east:
Oro Grande. When you leave Victorville North on D Street, it turns into "National Trails Hwy" AKA Route 66 at this area. This little town has industry, farming, a major cargo airport, and prep schools, about a mile from this spot.
Adelanto CA. Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch. You can find this place along Route 66 or what is now called National Trails Highway, between Victorville and Barstow. If you're lucky you can meet Elmer who is the son of the original owner of this property.
Barstow CA. Route 66 Hotel, every state along the Route 66 has or had one. Barstow is a major train depot for commerce from the West coast to everywhere in the US. It's one of the larger towns along the Route 66. Main street is where the old history is at.
Yermo CA, Original Del Taco. This is where it all started for Del Taco. And, it had several owners over the decades, and still in operation. If you've ever eaten a burger and fries with milk shake from the 1960 through the early 1980s, this place still has that flavor. Yermo has a lot of relics and open businesses of Route 66 past. And Dagget is also nearby.27Sep 29, 2018
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