The Bug Thread

[Driftless]

Let us see your photos of BUGS?

[MN Shutterbug]

You've got bugs over there that I've never seen.

Ok, I'll play.

[Bottle Fish]

I just bought my camera so I only have a couple of bugs so far. Personally I think they are my favorite thing to take pics of. Both were slightly out of focus, like I said it is a new camera.

[Cicada]

Never found the architect.

Funny to watch a big guy chase such a little thing around.

[pushbutton]

Great thread idea!!!! Will try to remember, but if not, hope someone will bump this next spring.

[Friar_Tuck]

these were taken with a cheap'o nikon cool pix 12 megapixel camera but didn't turn out too bad...

[Canon Guy]

Great thread and photos!

[Jim Jensen]

[LeeKen]

A few more bugs

Enterprise AL. pays homage to the boll weevil with this statue in the center of town. Apparently when the boll weevil wrecked the cotton industry many years ago an "Enterprising" businessman introduced peanut farming to the area, bringing back prosperity.

[Jim Jensen]

[finnbay]

[Duffman]

I dig the shot of the Crab spider chowin down. Death comes in all sorts of colors.

[TruthWalleyes]

I've got a bunch of photos of a cicada coming out of it's shell, or something like that...all i know is that it wasn't making that loud noise at the time I'll see if i can remember to grab the SD card tomorrow.

[TruthWalleyes]

Turns out my camera is really good at focusing on anything but the bug. Here's the best two pics of about 50

[dockothebay]

Fun shots everyone. Tough to pick a favorite, my grandkids call that blue caterpillar the "penguin" caterpillar!

here's my contribution-

[LeeKen]

Quote:

Tough to pick a favorite, my grandkids call that blue caterpillar the "penguin" caterpillar!

I never saw those marks as penguins. Now I'll never not see them as penguins.

Astute observation. The Grandkids must have good genetics.

[Bottle Fish]

@ LeeKen and Finbay - Just curious of what kind of lens you are using. I just bought my first DSLR and am looking to upgrade my lenses. I Have a Nikon D3100 and really like macro and landscape photography and I'm wondering what lensesyou use and/or recommend.

[Steve Foss]

Great thread. Bugs get a bad rap! Here are some of mine. Most were shot with the Canon 100 f2.8 macro. Some with the Canon 400 f5.6L.

[LeeKen]

Bottle Fish- My bug pictures were taken with a Canon Macro 100mm 2.8L on my 7d.

When I bought this lens last summer I was very disappointed in the quality of my images.

Thanks to Ken and others, who gave me some great tips on how to improve my techniques to improve my success ratio (which could still use a good deal of improvement),it is by far my favorite lens.

[finnbay]

I also use the Canon 100 mm f/2.8. I've recently purchased some Kenko extension tubes and hope to be experimenting with them.

[Canon Guy]

Great thread, remarkable images!

I've not shot any bugs recently , but I have previously.

[dockothebay]

The Grandkids must have good genetics.

or very vivid imaginations....

Really nice work people! I need to get that 100mm macro one of these days soon.

[LeeKen]

The bugs are back!

A Silvery-Blue butterfly.

[DARK30]

Bugs are cool

[Cyberfish]

Dragonfly porn? they have a weird way of doing it! and what is that damselfly doing???