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Picture of the day - September 5, 2008

Macro image of a wasp

Macro image of a wasp.
Photo courtesy of Ron E. Trees.

As we all know, scientists use microscopes to help them see things that cannot easily be seen with the naked eye. Photographers have a similar tool in the macro lens. Shooting with a macro lens brings out details in tiny objects that would otherwise remain hidden from human view, often giving the subject a whole new look in the process.

The photograph above is a macro shot of a wasp, a pesky insect that most of us are all too familiar with. Photographer Ron Trees seems to do everything he attempts extremely well, and he certainly did an outstanding job bringing this little creature "up close and personal". Here are a few words from him about the image:
    "I was out this weekend in my wife’s garden. She has several Dahlia
    plants, and on one of them were some Wasps. I had my camera
    with the macro lens so I took a few pictures, and this is one of them.
    I don’t know about you, but it kind of gives me the creeps."
       --Ron Trees

Me too, Ron!


 
Visitor Comments...
    Name: Cheria Rouse
    Town: Abingdon, VA

    Yeah Rick....It looks like it belongs on one of those crazy outer-space planets you are always writing about that you would like to travel to some day.

    Your Dear Wife,
    Cheria
     

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