Weekly Challenge #1 (06/30 - 07/06) - INSECTS

[Eric Mayer]

Please post your pictures for this week's Weekly Challenge, which is INSECTS!

Please post your camera information, species and general location. That way we can use this to learn from as well.

Thanks,

Eric A. Mayer

 

[leod]

I'll jump right in and get my feet wet

olympus C700UZ, I call them May Flies, and the pic was taken on the shore of Lake Sinclair, Hancock County Ga..

leo

 

[AnnieAK]

I was trying to take pictures of these Jacob's Ladders flowers a couple days ago, and this little bee kept getting in the way, so he got his picture taken.
Oly C3000, in macro, F9.0, 1/100 sec, ISO 100, about 10 inches away, late afternoon natural light, south central Alaska.

 

[Ironwood]

Took this one yesterday.
Olympus C4000Z
F10
1/125 sec
ISO100

 

[wvhunter]

William McKinely (sp) spiker
Minolta 430si
50mm lens
200 speed Kodak gold
forgot to write the settings down

 

[Canuck2]

Pentax SP 1000 that came over on the ark.
55mm lens with screw-on closeup lens.
Honey bees in the corn patch.
I haven't the foggiest what the settings were.

 

[_droptine_]

Olympus C 2100 UZ in Macro Mode

1/250 Second
F 2.8
Multi Segment Metering
ISO 100

 

[_droptine_]

I will figure this out yet.

 

[Pasco]

Well, you're all puttin' me to shame, but I sure am learning a lot about my camera...

First, exposure data doesn't stay with the file, huh? Will make note next time. Also, I may need a second job to pay for batteries.

 

[Pasco]

one more bug...

 

[Pasco]

My 12 yr old insisted on this one...nature at work.

 

[steve-o]

Edit: Sorry about the big file the first time. Here's a smaller one.

Taken with a Sony DSC-S85 on macro mode.

 

[karstic]

Macro
Focal Length 388mm
1/200
F3.5
ISO 118
Oly c2100uz

 

[TxCowboy]

Awesome photos folks! I have been busy all week and everytime I go out in the yard I can't find any insects.LOL These are some really great photos, can't wait to see more.

 

[TNDEERHUNTER]

Here is a pick I took last week. I actually took a few,I'll post a few in a seperate thread.

 

[foulshot]

I have a couple of pics so I'll put both.
First this little spider decided to hop a ride on my work truck.
Olympus C-740UZ
Macro
F 3.2
focal length 66mm
ISO 95

This second one had made a web between my trucks overnight.
Macro
F 3.2
focal length 6mm
ISO 100

 

[foulshot]

How about sunrise/sunset for the next challenge?

These are some really great photos.

to everybody for taking some great shots!

 

[wildebeast]

Not to good at photography but willing to give it a shot. Had to go into the woods to get one of my game cameras that had a digital Olympus 380 to use for this photo. Wish I had a through the lense viewfinder, had to just guess.

cliff

 

[Pasco]

Nice pics foulshot, that second one gives me the willies, I walked into one of them one morning, almost inhaled him.

Sunrise/sunset sounds good.

 

[treekiller]

I took this with a Oly-C740uz. Found this critter sitting on a Beargrass bloom in the Northern Oregon Cascades. At first I thought it was a bumble bee, but on closer inspection it looks more like some sort of fly!