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No time like family time

Posted on 31 May 2015 1 Comment

Last week I did something I had not done in 17 years… A family holiday.

There was little room for intense nature photography, since I was under instructions to stay around.
For those that don’t know, family is important (click here), hence most of my images look like this:

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However, from dusk till dawn there was time to sneak around the house (in the Costa Del Sol area, Southern Spain), in search of creepy crawlers.

KVG_7528Gecko / Muurgekko / Tarentola mauritanica

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For a long time I’ve had the idea to try macro photography with a strong “night effect”. It is the first time I tried this, so feel free to comment below.

KVG_7009I started with Roly-poly species

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During daytime I got some subjects from fishing in the pool…

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Yet I think the better images were taken at night.

  KVG_7157Daddy longlegs

At day this is the best I could do with a nest of ants, but at night I got different opportunities using a dead cricket…

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KVG_7303    You can see that the left three ants, are in defense position, ready to spray formic acid.

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Thanks to a huge grasshopper (Egyptian locust / Egyptische sprinkhaan / Anacridium aegyptium) I experimented with getting a silhouette on a wall.

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I also managed to catch a male Rhinoceros beetle (neushoornkever/Oryctes nasicornis)

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I look forward to your opinion on these dark pics…
Ciao
Karl

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