Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This was a long but quite intereting day. Started with my usual visit to my spider place. A few jumping spiders but not great focus. But this fly was quite cooperative

A different view

A yellow prickly something

A hovering wasp

Hovering wasp

Then about 9pm off to Admiralty Park for an MMOS night shoot. Steve taught us the joys of shooting with UV light - and then I found one. What fun

A parawixia

and dinner

Another view

Using LED illumination

Argiope St. Andrews Cross spider without the cross

Two sleepy wasps

And the wood scorpion eating a roach for dinner

Another view with the colors adjusted

From the side

With UV illumination - ISO = 800.

From the side

Eyes

Eyes with flash illumination

Camouflage and dinner

Our lighting setup

Roach

Cricket

C. Frank Starmer

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