Exbury Gardens Macro Meet photos

[Attic]

Well all you lot missed a great day out, Me, Bandit Mark, Canon Bob and Alliec Alastair had a great rummage in the Exbury undergrowth and found some great critters. Thanks Guys for a great day and we'll have to do it all again soon ;)
Here is a few of the yellow crab spider I found.

[Courierman]

glad you had a great day out,nice shots got any more

[Attic]

glad you had a great day out,nice shots got any more
Loads ;)

[alliec]

Was great to meet everyone and put faces to names, exbury is an awesome place. Lovley shots Alby, they came out really good espically like number 2. Just working on some of mine now and will post shortly.

[Attic]

Was great to meet everyone and put faces to names, exbury is an awesome place. Lovley shots Alby, they came out really good espically like number 2. Just working on some of mine now and will post shortly.
Glad you got home OK Alastair, great meeting you too. Looking forward to seeing the deer fly if you can do that baby soon ;)

[Courierman]

thats good Alby all with the MP-E well done

[alliec]

Working on it right now :-)

[newb2pro_1day_or_so]

WOW. At first I thought the first shot was an orange or something, then I saw the face. What in the world is the last shot? That's a strange set of eyes for a dragon fly. And in the last spider shot, that's a great example of red eye. One red eye out of all the spider's eyes.

[alliec]

Ok here is the first of mine and probably my shot of the day, Both me and Alby had chances at one of these but they really didnt like the flash and kept jumping away. Luckily this one statyed still long enough to get three shots for a focus stack. I think its a Deerfly and the first time i have photographed one.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2578842466_70a3e48887_o.jpg

[Attic]

Damn that's good Alastair, I've seen my flash shots of the deerfly only, its the place where one once stood :lol:

[alliec]

Thanks Alby, how did the natural light shots come out? They certanily are a little shy ;-)

[Attic]

No where near as good as the flash one of yours but I'll post anyway so you can see.

[racketman]

that's a cool fly, glad you enjoyed yourselves.

[dpastern]

Good shots everyone, glad you all had a good time, surprised more didn't turn out though :(

Dave

[alliec]

I think that turned out ok Alby a bit of fill flash would have sorted the shadows but as we know they wouldnt really tolerate it :-)

Thanks guys, was a little disapointing but a good time was had by all and hopefully next time more people will turn out. Here are a couple more shots.

Cute little hopper
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2578099623_598f04f8ca_o.jpg

Red Damsel
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2578099889_fc5f5dc2e1_o.jpg

Very small crab spider approx 3-4mm body length.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2578960106_6afea73859_o.jpg

[LordV]

Lovely series- looks like it was well worth the meet :)
Brian V.

[Greg_C]

lovely shots guys, looks like it was a meet not to miss. darn it living on the other side of the world and it being winter here now....:evil:

[Canon Bob]

Thoroughly enjoyed my safari in the shrubbery...thanks guys.
A little busy at the moment but I'll throw this one in before someone else posts it.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa20/CanonBob/IMG_0050web.jpg

[Canon Bob]

Another quick one....poor little sod had just been attacked.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa20/CanonBob/IMG_0068web.jpg

[dpastern]

ooh I like that last shot Alistair!

Dave

[bandit 1]

Hiya All,

What a great day we all had, it was great to finally meet up & put at least three faces to names, glad you guys had a good time, mind you I did feel a bit of a lame duck as time wore on ;):lol::lol:

If anyone gets the chance to go to Exbury its well worth it

For some reason I seem to have very few critter keepers, i know excuses excuses but I still can't get a good steady grip yet but hell it was a good day out which is a raretiy these days :lol:

I managed to get a few reasonably good shots of this Green Long Jawed Spider but I made a complete mess up of the Spinneret shot but I've stuck it up anyway, I'm not proud just still knackered :o:lol:

#1 is stitched from three shot  is just a single #3 is a close-up #4 is anybody's guess :o:lol:

Cheers for now
Mark

[bandit 1]

damned annoying I usually manage to do a half decent job on Spinnerets but not this time :lol:

[Attic]

Blimey Mark you got right up that spiders jack didn't you :lol: great shots and great to finally meet you. A great character on here and in the real world too, looking forward to the next meet ;)

[dpastern]

Blimey Mark you got right up that spiders jack didn't you :lol: great shots and great to finally meet you. A great character on here and in the real world too, looking forward to the next meet ;)

That was never in doubt imho, one day Mark I'll end up in the UK at your doorstep for a nice cuppa and a good laugh :)

Dave

[Attic]

Nice shots Bob, tell me was that caterpillar what the ichneumon was dragging across the floor?

[bandit 1]

Hiya Alby,

Likewise great to meet you also :D

A character eh, now that's a new one on me usually it's that weird bugger with the camera who lurks in the bushes:lol:
I've always had a reputation for being a tad differant, somebody's got to keep the old village character tradition going I guess ( village idiot comes to mind )

Loving all the shots & you've soon got the hang of that new toy !!

Judging by the weather forecast it looks like we got the day just right, couldn't have been better eh.

Had a PM from Bob earlier & he suggested another meet up possibly more my way to make things a bit easier traveling wise etc. but if we had another meet I thought somewhere near Bristol may not be a bad idea as that seems to be more central & accessible motorway wise ??

Well I'm just about to make up for a shortfall in the food department y'day, mmmm roast pork & all the trimmings & to hell with the cholesterol levels eh :lol:

Look forwards to us all meeting up once again

All the best
Cheers for now
Mark

[bandit 1]

Hiya Alistair,

Excellent shots, love the way the light effects the eyes, you're lucky it didn't take off, sneak round the back of you & bite you in the arse as they're tricky like that :lol:

Hope you've recovered from the journey now, that was a great day, well half a day in my case ;):lol: & we were well lucky with the weather, it was absolutely chucking it down when I got withing 5 miles from home & Ami said it had been raining on & off all day.

All the best
Cheers for now
Mark


Ok here is the first of mine and probably my shot of the day, Both me and Alby had chances at one of these but they really didnt like the flash and kept jumping away. Luckily this one statyed still long enough to get three shots for a focus stack. I think its a Deerfly and the first time i have photographed one.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2578842466_70a3e48887_o.jpg

[Bill Pham]

wow guys glad you all had a good time. great set of images all. wish i could have been there too.


Bill

[bandit 1]

Hiya Dave,

You're more than welcome mate no worries :D

Cheers for now
Mark


That was never in doubt imho, one day Mark I'll end up in the UK at your doorstep for a nice cuppa and a good laugh :)

Dave

[bandit 1]

Hiya Bob,

Excellent shot, beautiful colours, I think this is the ' Forest Shield Bug' Pentatoma rufipes ?
Never saw that one, musta been after I left eh ;):lol:

Cheers for now
Mark



Thoroughly enjoyed my safari in the shrubbery...thanks guys.
A little busy at the moment but I'll throw this one in before someone else posts it.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa20/CanonBob/IMG_0050web.jpg

[newb2pro_1day_or_so]

These are awesome shots! Are there ever any macro meets in the US?

[Canon Bob]

Nice shots Bob, tell me was that caterpillar what the ichneumon was dragging across the floor?

Yes, he was already having a bad day...then I turned up :cry:

[LindaB]

Wow - looks like you guys has a fabulous day and you have all taken some fantastic pics.

Mark - I think your shots are very good and you have done incredibly well to get such great shots while your hand is still bad.

Linda

[troypiggo]

Great shots everyone. Jealous of the bugs, the shots, and not being able to meet up since I didn't get an opportunity earlier in the year.

[bandit 1]

Hiya Linda,

It was a great day but we coulda done with a fair damsel amongst us fellas, shame you couldn't come, next time maybe :D I tell you what I've never seen so many Dragons & Damsels just a shame I only got one Damsel keeper

The hand is coming on fine thanks to look at it you wouldn't notice anything now, just a bit limp wristed for a while, think I coulda done with a Golf Buggy though :lol: I did wonder who outta Alby, Bob or Alistair could give me a Piggy Back, they know what I mean :lol:

Cheers for now
Mark


Wow - looks like you guys has a fabulous day and you have all taken some fantastic pics.

Mark - I think your shots are very good and you have done incredibly well to get such great shots while your hand is still bad.

Linda

[bandit 1]

Hiya All,

Not the best IQ I'm sorry to say but here's my damsel contribution.

Cheers for now
Mark

[dpastern]

Mark - that looks reasonably good to me, far better than any of my damsel shots, so you're definitely doing something right!

Dave

[bandit 1]

Hiya Dave,

You're to kind, God knows how many shots I took just to get these couple :lol:
But the company made up for my lack of shooting, Alby, Alistair & Bob are three great blokes & are most welcome to call in if they're ever this way, that is if I aint put em off :lol::lol:

Cheers for now
Mark



Mark - that looks reasonably good to me, far better than any of my damsel shots, so you're definitely doing something right!

Dave

[Attic]

Nothing wrong with those shots Mark, I like the close up, it's shows it's feeble neck. Reminds me of those nodding dogs :lol:

[bandit 1]

Hiya Alby,
Many thanks for your kind words & comments, Aaaah no not the Churchill Dog, just for you :lol:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/84/217624424_88120dfa61.jpg%3Fv%3D1155818114&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonywatkin/217624424/in/set-72157594420398576/&h=500&w=375&sz=158&hl=en&start=21&um=1&tbnid=dSdw0aJckKk2EM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchurchill%2Bnodding%2Bdog%26start%3D2 0%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLJ,GGLJ :2006-41,GGLJ:en-GB%26sa%3DN

Cheers for now
Mark

[johnkermit1]

great series (everybody)...you all must have had a great day...i think it is great that you all meet up for an event like this....if i were in UK, i would love to join you!!!

:cool: