Album Up Close and Personal -- Photos Focused on the Details

I found a couple dead butterflies late this summer - one was a 'Painted Lady' and the other was a 'Monarch' butterfly - and decided to try snowflake photo technique on these to see what I'd get. These were taken using a 4x microscope lens.

This is one of the spots on the Painted Lady wing
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This is near where the wing joins the body on the Painted Lady butterfly.
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Monarch butterfly wing
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One of the spots on the Monarch butterfly wing.
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It's interesting how their wings are like a shingled roof. I wonder if there is some kind of aerodynamic advantage in this.
 
I found a couple dead butterflies late this summer - one was a 'Painted Lady' and the other was a 'Monarch' butterfly - and decided to try snowflake photo technique on these to see what I'd get. These were taken using a 4x microscope lens.

This is one of the spots on the Painted Lady wing
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This is near where the wing joins the body on the Painted Lady butterfly.
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Monarch butterfly wing
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One of the spots on the Monarch butterfly wing.
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It's interesting how their wings are like a shingled roof. I wonder if there is some kind of aerodynamic advantage in this.
Wow! I had no idea that's how they looked up close. Really cool shots!
 
Temps warmed up into the 50s today. I was working on winter preparations outside and heard the pooch barking at something on the porch. Inspection of the situation found this guy curled up in a leaf. . . moved him to a location away from the house. Fingers present for scale. ;)

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I found a couple dead butterflies late this summer - one was a 'Painted Lady' and the other was a 'Monarch' butterfly - and decided to try snowflake photo technique on these to see what I'd get. These were taken using a 4x microscope lens.

This is one of the spots on the Painted Lady wing
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This is near where the wing joins the body on the Painted Lady butterfly.
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Monarch butterfly wing
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One of the spots on the Monarch butterfly wing.
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It's interesting how their wings are like a shingled roof. I wonder if there is some kind of aerodynamic advantage in this.
Unbelievable! Such detail.
 
just some abstracts of ice bubbles in frozen Clear Creek in Zion. I always wanted to get some close-up shots of ice bubbles

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just some abstracts of ice bubbles in frozen Clear Creek in Zion. I always wanted to get some close-up shots of ice bubbles

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I like these as they are, but I'll bet these would look cool in high contrast B&W
 
This was inspired by Yvonne's ice bubbles pic above. I was standing on a big boulder looking at the Big South Fork in KY a few weeks ago, and zoomed in on this ice leftover from a little higher water sometime earlier.
Didn't think much of it until later, when I zoomed in, and saw the ripples.
How did it freeze like that?
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Crop of a zoom from a P&S, so don't judge:p
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The toe of a glacier touching the water on a remote Artic Coast.

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Just Kidding. :p Actually some interesting ice crystals I noticed in a stream on a walk around the farm this weekend.

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Super close up view.

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A weekend warmup was literally causing the crystals to melt as I was looking at them.
 
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