Flowers Pictures Gallery: Nice Flowers Photos photos

Sabtu, 26 Januari 2013

Nice Flowers Photos photos

Flower chafer
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Image by macropoulos
Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles. The adult insects visit flowers to feed on pollen and nectar or browse the petals. Most of them tend to be hairy and are good pollinators but some species are considered pests.

I believe the flower chafer depicted in this photo belongs to genus Oxythyrea.
UPDATE: Looks like it's Oxythyrea cinctella after all. Thanks to J. Coelho for the identification and Eckehard Roessner and Frank Köhler for the confirmation.

Best viewed Large On Black.
Click here for more photos of flower chafers in my photostream.

I Shot My Macro This Way:
Canon EOS 400D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM, no flash.
In broad daylight, raising the sensitivity to ISO:400 enabled me to use an f/16 aperture (for a decent depth of field to cover most of the insect), while still maintaining a workable shutter speed (1/320sec). Shot in aperture priority mode, with an exposure bias of -2/3EV, in order not to overexpose the white flower petals.

4 of 4 Rock Rose flower. Cistaceae; MED; Cistus xpurpureus - SLO Botanical Gardens
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Image by mikebaird
4 of 4 Rock Rose flower. Cistaceae; MED; Cistus xpurpureus; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_rose - photographed as part of the
Digital Photo Walk led by Teddy Llovet and Pat Brown at the San Luis Obispo (SLO) Botanical Gardens www.slobg.org/ San Luis Obispo, CA. 28 May 2009. Photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird, mike at mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com, Canon 1D Mark III, 180mm Macro lens, tripod.

If you have an opinion on which of the four versions of this flower is best I would appreciate a note to that effect.

28 May 2009 11:19PM Recropped as suggested by Teddy Llovet - good idea!