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Attic
28th of November 2007 (Wed), 09:05
A few chubby blind springtails on rotting leaves.
LordV
28th of November 2007 (Wed), 09:13
Excellent shots Alby. You did well with the exposure- I always have trouble with these. Springtail ID Kalaphorura burmeisteri (from Frans).

Brian V.
Attic
28th of November 2007 (Wed), 09:16
Excellent shots Alby. You did well with the exposure- I always have trouble with these. Springtail ID Kalaphorura burmeisteri (from Frans).

Brian V.
Thanks for the ID Brian, I had a few blown ones to start but turned down the flash by 1 stop and it seem to do the trick.
alliec
28th of November 2007 (Wed), 15:27
Excellent Shots, would love to find some of these but havent managed it yet.
Jay Lowery
28th of November 2007 (Wed), 18:29
awesome shots i like the second one and the last one. where did you find these. seems like they would be soil dwellers with the blindness.
devil350
29th of November 2007 (Thu), 01:56
Excellent shots Alby, nothing else to add, like the others congrats for that great series.

Bye ;-)
Laurent.
LordV
29th of November 2007 (Thu), 02:21
awesome shots i like the second one and the last one. where did you find these. seems like they would be soil dwellers with the blindness.
Jay - you can normally find these in/under piles of damp leaf litter.

brian V.
bandit 1
29th of November 2007 (Thu), 04:04
Hiya Alby,

Excellent shots, tried to shoot some of these the other day & damned if I could hold still enough though, another day maybe eh :lol:

Cheers for now
Mark
Jay Lowery
30th of November 2007 (Fri), 16:27
Jay - you can normally find these in/under piles of damp leaf litter.

i see springtails all the time. this year my pepper plants had a few thousand under them easily in the mulch. i just never have seen a blind one out of the many many ive looked at with a 50x magnifier. wondering why they are blind as well. soil dwellers wouldn't need them i would think.
skylab
30th of November 2007 (Fri), 16:35
Great set Alby. Nice exposure.
Photogirl2007
30th of November 2007 (Fri), 21:45
Excellent shots Alby!!
Katzer1
1st of December 2007 (Sat), 14:52
IMO the second is the most artistic one of the series.
The shallow DOF really works here, the bright subject slowly fades against the dark background, it conveys an almost romantic feel.
Well done.
Erez
MonkeymanC3
2nd of December 2007 (Sun), 07:52
Great shots with great detail Attic!

I noticed these were taken with your Panasonic DMC-FZ8. Was your Raynox adapter also used at the time?

Thanks. :)