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large skink -first sighting
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Large skink
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A native bee also pollinating and feeding from the Wooly Tea tree blossoms
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a red visitor to the woolly Tea Tree blossoms-1600 ISO cropped
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No idea what sort of bee this is - it is also very small - the tea tree blossoms are about 7 to 10 mm wide at a guess
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This bejewelled bug was on the tea-tree flowers- so small that I could not see them at first without my reading glasses
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My first bee - 1/350th f11 800 ISO
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This is the ful lview of the image - reduced to 1500 pixels wide from the original 3872 - Pentax K10D with Tamron 90mm macro
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full size crop from previous image
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first shots with the K10D and Tamron macro 90mm -arrived Dec 15th 2006
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something a little different - a skink - (no feathers) seems to be saying "You looking at me?" - these guys are very skittish and noisy - they seems to make far more noise than their size would suggest moving through the grass and leaves
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uninvited visitor - while trying to photograph the frogs (below) this little wasp like creature landed on the top of my Blundstone boots - another miniature local - the size can be gauged by the width of the leather tongue it is sitting on
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Someone should tell folks moving to Tasmania to carry a magnifying glass -I was walking towards the pond to photograph the new found frogs and saw this flash of colour
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The same insect as before displaying his undercarriage
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I took the Tamron 90mm macro out and was forced to use manual focus on many shots -no auto focus could isolate the hopper from the grass in this shot
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This little hopper was so small and blended in with the grass so well that the only way I could detect its presence was when it moved
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Grasshopper face -up close and personal - the hopper was about 2- 3 cm long - 800 ISO 1/180th f8
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Jumping Jack ant getting into position to jump - check out the pincer jaws - 1/500th at f8
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Jumping Jack Ants 1/250th second at f8 - and nervous!
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Grasshopper - 1/90th sec f8 400 ISO
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We are just good friends
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The Tamron 70-300 in macro mode - 800ISO - a butterfly -unknown variety- at rest
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Another local - at rest briefly on the pond - Tamron 70-300 -approx 10-15 feet away - the different background gives this one a real lift I feel
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Selective focus and limited depth of field contribute to this image of the two grasshoppers- both very small
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Cuddles:-An example of the sort of macro the Tamron 70-300 lets me get that the standard 90mm probably cannot
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One of my first two freshwater fish caught today - Wed 7th Feb -at the Craigbourne Dam- it took me five outings and I bought 3 reels and a collection of lures etc but I finally caught two fish!!
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Where do ladybirds go in winter to hibernate?
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While gathering firewood I discovered these European Wasps hibernating - I think- under the bark of some wood
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In this shot the focus is mainly on the lower hopper- in all these shots I was forced to use flash as the light was very low at end of day - 1/180th sec at f8 in most cases
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I used the Sony R1 to try to get a shot showing how many of these jewel like sand crabs were out
