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Biodiversity Gravy. This...is a minuscule fly. To take this picture we used a microscope objective on an old 200mm Pentax lens. It was that small. This is also a Nothing Fly. Trillions and trillions of these size Nothing Flies exist in the world. They are not Blue Whales, Baobab Trees, or even a Chipmunk. The are nothing. And mean nothing to almost everyone. We inhale them by accident; wash, unacknowledged, their bodies off our car windows, blink when they come close to our eyes; create and destroy their lives and homes with every step we take, lawn we cut and wildscape we denature. Yet, here in this picture is one that you now have seen. Just one Nothing Fly. One of those trillions times trillions and thousands of species. I have no idea what its name is and in this case it doesn't matter for it is just here as biodiversity ambassador for our enjoyment and wonder. Look. Follow the three-fold arcing lines across the eyes. Did you see the multiple points of pattern origin? Languidize the mesmerizing patterned earth-toned landscape between the eyes and above the antennae; such a nice pallet, lovely blending textures, curves and parts that work together to create a balanced whole. Found, with no great effort, from the fields that will become the proposed industrial yard for the MAGLEV train on the Beltsville Agriculture Research Center. Elizabeth Panner...photographer. 16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC) All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair, With our young lives each spring impassioned tree Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change. - Oscar Wilde
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: Best over all technical resource for photo stacking: <a href="http://www.extreme-macro.co.uk" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.extreme-macro.co.uk/</a> Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/0760347387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488851025&sr=8-1&keywords=bees+up+close" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...</a> Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland: <a href="http://bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf" rel="noreferrer nofollow">bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf</a> Basic USGSBIML set up: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY</a> USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4</a> Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections">www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections</a> PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking: <a href="http://www.photomacrography.net/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.photomacrography.net/</a> Contact information: Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov
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| Source | Tiny crushed fly, face_2020-11-02-19.07.31 ZS PMax UDR |
| Author | USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA |
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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Sam Droege at https://flickr.com/photos/54563451@N08/50931342051. It was reviewed on 7 May 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark. |
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