Culex sp. The mozzie has almost certainly emerged recently from out of my small garden pond where there are hundreds more water-borne larvae.
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Boss photos you've taken
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There's no reason as to why a ladybird should have appeared in the darkness of my garden this late in September - but none the less, there she was, as I was out looking for spiders...
Just to set the scene - after finding her and taking the first photos where I spotted her - the resulting images against a deep dark black background from using flash at night was not overly appealing to me, so I decided to create a quick outdoor studio by plucking the leaf where she was standing, relocating it, and adding a printed background to match her colours.
By moving the card and changing the light position, aperture, and ISO, creates small differences to the various image results.
I'm no David Attenborough, but enjoy it if you can (and excuse my Lancashire accent!)
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Just to set the scene - after finding her and taking the first photos where I spotted her - the resulting images against a deep dark black background from using flash at night was not overly appealing to me, so I decided to create a quick outdoor studio by plucking the leaf where she was standing, relocating it, and adding a printed background to match her colours.
By moving the card and changing the light position, aperture, and ISO, creates small differences to the various image results.
I'm no David Attenborough, but enjoy it if you can (and excuse my Lancashire accent!)
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Not so much a good photo, but I love this dog graffiti.
Quick grab on my phone walking back to the car in Spain the other morning 
Apuseni Parc natural, Romania.
Cicadella viridis is a relatively large (length 6-9mm - though this one was around 6mm) and distinctive species, with yellow on the head and pronotum (first thoracic segment) contrasting with the blue-green colour of the rest of the body. Perhaps this one is immature - there is not much blueness yet...
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Welcome mate... post lots.. it’s all very frandly in here ?
have you got any more of your guitars mate?
Me working on a Flamenco nco Negra guitar .. french polish going on
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This is the detail of my personal design handmade poppy rosette I use these on the flamenco guitars … each little poppy is about 14x12 tiny squares of veneer which take me three days to assemble from different colour sheets if .5mm Veneer
Thats lovely mate. I wanted to be a luthier when I was at college until I realised I had the touch of a caveman.
Araneus diadematus
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Cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides) - but on the same fence nowhere near a cellar!!!
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A few random shots from the University of Bristol Botanical Gardens this morning.