Activity for User 217 - Dennis Hirning - dchirning@msn.com

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1 Jun 21 Comment I don't mind the little drops of water. The stream coming from the mouth helps to identify them as water. The back-lighting really brings out the details in the feathers. I don't know if you could bring out detail in the eye since both the eye and feathers around it are black. You would have to remove the water drops on the head to make a catch light show and even if you did that, it would still just look like another water drop. Jun 22nd
1 Jun 21 Comment I hadn't read any of the comments and was just scrolling down to them when I saw it without the trees in the background. Even as a panorama, I like it. It really brings out the Indian Paintbrush as the subject. The trees were distracting. Jun 22nd
1 Jun 21 Comment I have seen pictures of these somewhere, but I don't remember when or why. I haven't seen them in person. I tend to go with Sol's touch. It does help them to stand out from the background. Jun 22nd
1 Jun 21 Comment I like the detail that you have here. You even managed to get a catch light in the eyes of both of the birds. Jun 22nd
1 Jun 21 Comment I like the view that you have taken. The diagonal position of the various rocks works well. I might have lightened the large rock in the foreground to give the eye a place to rest in the image. Jun 22nd
1 Jun 21 Comment This is great. I like that you left details in the velvet showing. Your lighting works out well. I might have toned down or removed the arc of reflections in the top apple. Jun 22nd
1 Jun 21 Reply A whole bunch. I had the motor drive going high speed. Those little critters are moving fast so it was hard to even catch an ant in the viewfinder in time to press the shutter. Jun 13th
1 Jun 21 Reply Thanks. It is hard to get much depth of field with this much magnification of a small subject. There was no possibility for Helicon with this. I was glad to get just the ant's eye sharp in the fraction of a second that I had with it in focus. Jun 6th
1 Jun 21 Reply You might not even notice these little ants crawling on you since they are so small. My wife did tape up around a window when a little trail of them was crawling up the sink. I'm not sure what they are but they probably are Pharaoh ants.

There is a picture of them here next to a ball point pen tip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_ant
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1 Jun 21 Reply Here is a picture of the tree genitalia with pollen. That is the little yellowish dots. If you tap these a little yellow cloud comes off. It shows how very small the ant was. I couldn't see if there were any ants unless I got down closer to them. Jun 2nd
1 Jun 21 Comment Thank you. I suspected that those little yellow-green balls were pollen and I took some pictures of pollen on a tree and now I am sure.
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