July 2008 Archives

Wed Jul 23 14:08:22 EDT 2008

Fun with reversal rings!

On a whim, I picked up a 52mm reverse mount adapter. With lenses mounted backwards, one turn an otherwise boring lens into quite a magnifier, as this marauding snail found out:

There's no sense of scale here, but the snail's shell is the size of my pinkie nail. Those small "pebbles" on its shell are actually grains of sand.

...and it's viciously devouring a piece of Meow Mix. Whatever the alley cats leave behind, snails finish off...


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Wed Jul 23 13:58:45 EDT 2008

More birds!

A Great Egret trying to run away from me:

A clutch of ducklings:


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