This weekend, we went backpacking with our friends Seth and Anne, at Dolly Sods in West Virginia. As usual, I took pictures. Not so much of rocks this time, but there were lots of springtime buggies crawling about, and you know how I like to shoot macro photos of small critters… So here you go:
Mating dragonflies:
Grasshopper nymph (juvenile):
Moth (on my fingertip):
A very large ant hill:
Weevil (arm hair for scale):
A deerfly I swatted, with beautiful eyes:
Aphids:
An elegant ninja of an alderfly:
I love the bugs. Seeing them close-up through the digital camera brings me unaccountable happiness.
The image quality of these photographs is incredible, for such a small size of subject! Well done. Do you have a special fancy lens on your digital camera?
Nope — it’s just a regular little Canon Elph point-n-shoot; set to “macro” function (the little tulip-looking icon).