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Roman Kurywczak
04-27-2011, 08:43 AM
Congratulations Patrick Sparkman for your image "Aphids.....It's whats for Dinner" being chosen as the Macro Image of the Week for the week ending 4/1/2011!!!
It has been constantly windy here, so it has been difficult to get out and shoot the flowers and bugs. But it finally laid down a little and I found a few. This guy was great! He got in several cool poses, and you can see a couple of aphids hiding from him. I believe this is a juvenile assassin bug, but I could be wrong. I did not see him attack the aphids, but it sure would have been neat. http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/images/smilies/biggrin3.gif

BTW - this guy is only about 1/8" long.

Canon EOS-1D IV, MP-E65, MT-24 diffused set manually, iso400,f16,1/300 sec, Normal Lightroom adjustments, minimal crop, a little Tim Grey dodging/burning on highlights. All comments welcome.

Steve Maxson
04-27-2011, 11:40 AM
Congratulations Patrick! Well deserved.

denise ippolito
04-27-2011, 03:26 PM
Hey Patrick, Congratulations and very well deserved!! Say hi to Robin:S3:

Patrick Sparkman
04-27-2011, 06:39 PM
Thanks Roman and Denise, and Robin says hi back.

BTW - My original post incorrectly identified this insect. It is a "Red Bug". Strange name.....not real sure why they gave it that name. :w3

Brendan Dozier
04-27-2011, 08:20 PM
Congratulations, Patrick! Awesome image!

Kerry Perkins
04-27-2011, 08:35 PM
Great image Patrick, congratulations!

Indranil Sircar
04-28-2011, 08:25 PM
Congratulations Patrick! Outstanding macro work!

Harshad Barve
05-10-2011, 08:34 PM
Congratulations Patrick