{"id":438,"date":"2007-04-10T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/438"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:33:21","slug":"the-bug-post-macro-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-bug-post-macro-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The bug post (macro photography)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I decided to give the macro lens a proper work-out today. More photos are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=238214\" target=\"_blank\">Butterflies and Bugs<\/a> album, but here&#39;s a small sample.<\/p>\n<p>The first photo of the ants was just a matter of focusing on target and wating for the ants to climb over it. Which of course they do, I then spotted a spider. I&#39;ve probably seen this type before, but not really taken any notice. My web searches suggest that it&#39;s a Nursery Web Spider, sometimes also referred to as a wolf spider (it hunts). This is the nearest thing to a wolf I&#39;m likely to photgraph, especially from a few inches away! <\/p>\n<p>For the final shot I was hanging precariously over the edge of the pond, trying to support the camera without letting it slide into the murk. I managed plenty of badly blurrred shots due to camera shake, but one or two were ok. It&#39;s some sort of nymph as far as I can tell. It was less than 2cm in length.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/ants_1004078807.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/ants_1004078807.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Ants at work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nurserywebspider_1004078788_crop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nurserywebspider_1004078788_crop.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">A Nursery Web Spider aka wolf spider<\/span><br \/>\n[\/ALIGN]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nymph_1004078827.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nymph_1004078827.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Nymph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,239,1009],"tags":[107,237,242,241],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects-2","category-nymph","category-spiders-2","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-pond-life","tag-spiders","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}