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Just Hanging Around
Just Hanging Around
GregoryB


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Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Home
Date: Nov 20, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125s
Galleries: Macro, Rural
Date Uploaded: Nov 21, 2008

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Comments: 8
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I was going to put this in the Nov. free study but thought that a lot of DPC'ers don't like bugs......he is about 1/2" across.
Can anybody identify this critter for me - there are hundreds of them in the long grass in our house paddock.

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11/16/2009 07:55:05 PM
We call'em gallynippers around here. Even though they don't bite. :)
Love the pallet of pale greens.
Follow yer gut and put images like these in the free studies if you'd don't have anything else. As big as FS get even a top 100 place is a great honor. And ya never know, sometimes a blue.
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11/22/2008 01:23:30 PM
Greg, your processing here is just excellent, you management to pull the spider way out from the background and yet it seems immersed in it. Love the different lines leading all around, and yet my eye comes right back to the subject.
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11/22/2008 12:07:20 AM
Nice shooting, and good processing in this shot. I like the lighter tones in the BG in this. The little knobs sticking out behind the wings are a curiosity.
We have the same kind of bugs in S W Florida. The ones here are about 2 to 2 1/2 inches across, and like to live where they have access to a pond or a stream.
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11/21/2008 05:36:59 PM
That is great detail. The wings are so sharp and translucent. Perfect against the green background.
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11/21/2008 08:57:39 AM
I don't mind insect pics at all-especially when they are this brilliant !!! Love those delicate wings- I did not know what it was either :) (yes we LOVE our macro lens !!!! )
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11/21/2008 08:05:12 AM
It's called a 'Crane Fly' commonly known in England as a 'Daddy Long-Legs'
Great picture by the way.
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11/21/2008 07:58:42 AM
I have seen them around, but have no idea what they are, sorry. Very nice capture though.
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11/21/2008 07:04:09 AM
very brilliant photograph and i love the processing ... i'm not sure about dpc ppl not liking bugs .. i think its just wasps and ugly ones .. this is very attractive and i think you might'v done quite well ..
and wow .. i didnt see hundreds of these in the grass, maybe four or five .. i'll be interested to find out wot it is too .. :)x
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