Mark If I ever start taking "insects on flowers" pictures, your photoes will be the standard I will aim for, and - never reach. Most likely I will stay away from it after seeing these pictures, awsame! ;-( (Don't really know what smilie that expresses my emotions)
Tim Not drunk, just plain Norwegian. Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -----Original Message----- From: Boris Liberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1. juli 2005 08:02 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: GESO - Three Bugs Hi! > Here's a mini gallery with three bug shots from the last few days: > > http://www.markcassino.com/temp/peso/GESO_June.htm > > Comments and critiques are appreciated. > > The Karner Blue is a fairly rare butterfly - I like that shot because it > accentuates the extremely reflective wing scales inside the spots along > the back of the wings. I now have precisely two acceptable shots of this > butterfly - this (and some in camera dupes) and one from last summer. > The dragonflies are pretty common fare. > > All shots taken with the *ist-D, AF360FGZ, and A* 200 f4 macro. > > I woke up a few days ago to find my eyes swollen and inflamed - somehow > managed to get a nasty eye infection. So I've been shooting in the > summer heat wearing glasses (I'm blind as a bat) and feel like Mr. Magoo > out in the heat and humidity, trying to peer through steamed up > lenses... Can't wait to get back into contacts (hopefully next week!) Mark, if you were a programmer, I would tell you that you write code without any bugs whatsoever ;-)! Terrific... Boris
