While the standard shots are excellent, the abstracts really steal the show here - and I love the Australian colours in June.

Not as simple as it looks. Nice job!

This is one of those rare opportunities that you don't turn down. I found this lady in a cardboard packing box in my workshop
a couple of months ago. I put her carefully back to photograph later. Today, I found the time and assembled some gear.
I put a series A 100mm dental macro onto a set of Pentax auto bellows M and the K1 on the other end. There is no aperture
connection across the bellows so I plugged a single locking cable release into the bellows at the lens end to stop down prior to
taking the shot. Since the whole lot was mounted onto a tripod most of the images were shot at f22 - f32 for 20-30seconds using
natural light from a west facing window.

1. She had placed herself on a vertical surface, facing uphill and chewed up the cardboard, taking a firm grip of the debris in
her jaws before losing consciousness. She was firmly attached to the card and appeared to be gripping it with a back claw on
the side away from the camera.



2. When you are trying to swat them you rarely take notice of their considerable array of sensory organs or realise how hairy they are.



3. Given the opportunity I had to take one of the business end even though it was all packed away. And just look at those
amazingly sharp claws.



4. Hibernation is a risky strategy. She is lucky I am a kind soul and that she picked a good site. But just look at how she has
arranged herself, purely by instinct. Antennae snagged backwards behind the front legs which are themselves tucked
firmly beneath her thorax. Her delicate wings have been carefully folded up beneath her abdomen and her middle and back
legs have been pressed tight against her body to protect them. Then she switched everything off. I can only assume that
her body is arched off the surface to maintain ventilation?



I shall listen for the buzzing when it gets warmer and ensure I know where the proposed nest is being built !!

Great spoof nevertheless!

Showoff! ... And so you should with a cracker like that!

Thank you Gareth, John. It was quite magnificent for real.

Totally agree with the comments about the last one.

Odd place for a sports field?

My MX has got a split screen. I was thinking of trying it in the K3. Any thoughts before I bust something?

We realised there would be a spectacular sunset with about 15 minutes to spare so we rushed off to find a good vantage point above the trees.
We were not disappointed.













K1 with an F series 80-320mm.