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a super closeup shot of a bee's wing. the longer hairs are on the side of the wing facing the camera, and since the wing is mostly transparent, you can also see the hairs on the opposite side which appear shorter as they fade off into the distance. each of these ultra-tiny hairs have a diameter about 1/8000 of an inch (1/4 the thickness of kitchen plastic wrap).
Bee Wing
cluster of Dendrobium orchids in China rain-forest
Oriental Orchids
Trying not to sound like an advertisement for tripods, but I really love my Benbo Trekker. It is an extremely well engineered piece of British equipment and is the only tripod that has accommodated every place I have desired to place a camera. For this photo, I'm set up between the seats on a 737 so I could capture this through the window.
Above the Clouds
Another beautiful and large butterfly in Malaysia. It's wings are simply huge when they flap by. They're relatively common as long as you don't mind being perched motionless in the middle of a flower bed and waiting for one to land in front of the lens. They are more properly called a Ricepaper butterfly, but most locals know it as a Tree Nymph.
Tree Nymph 1
the lovely Andrea West orchid (Hawaii rainforest)
Andrea West
hot mineral springs in Wyoming
Desert Pools
Bamboo forest in China
Green Bamboo
very large wall of tightly packed spires in Utah wilderness
Wall Spires
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