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Beeeeeeeyootiful! (bu-dum-TCH!)

Ow.

Sweet bee! Did you anger it?

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Lens.

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"Changes."

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Hedgehog face...

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...and hedgehog butt.

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...and I finally caught one of the mushrooms sprouting outside. :eek:
I present to you: Phallus impudicus (the stinkhorn)

Nope... it was busy!!! :p

Phasmid (walking stick) in my pecan tree.

Aw, you're just bragging about your Phasmids and pecan tree. :D

One part closeup, one part wtf.
 

I won't name it first in this thread, but I will answer pms that cry uncle.

What is it?

A light of some sort. Looks like a traffic light, but i doubt it.

It's one of those small battery powered fans with the LEDs on the blades. Right?

Edit: like this one.

My first impression was traffic light also.

I think it's a small light like a push button, never seen a traffic light with that circle pattern. :confused:

Yeah, I agree with xob. It looks like a circular rubber button on a TV remote, one that has a green backlight. Can't fool us!!!

Glatt-
My daughter got one of those in a gift exchange for Christmas in July at her daycare. It lasted the drive home. Poor kid was heartbroken. /hijack

I don't have a camera to post my own otherwise I would. I have to steal I guess.


http://www.terragalleria.com/images/.../aust2537.jpeg


Elspode. That's some stick. I was expecting a 'real walking stick' silly me.

That is some wild mushroom Kitsune.

I don't know what that green spinning light is Big V. I am crying uncle.

Ok. Uncle it is.

Borelight.

That is a green led at the bottom of a muzzleloader barrel, four feet deep and half an inch across.

At camp this year, we got a chance to learn all about firing a muzzleloader, and part of that process was cleaning them. At the end of the cleaning procedure, before reassembly, the barrel was inspected with this tool. Since a muzzleloader's barrel is more like a cup than a tube (ok, a really long tall thin narrow cup with a tiny leak at the bottom...nevermind), the borelight had to be dropped in from the muzzle and when it slid to the bottom, we were able to inspect it with the light it cast on the inside of the barrel. This is a picture of what I saw.

How to roll your own.

Excellent puzzle, BigV!

What makes me afraid to click on that link?

Someone else do it, and tell me what's there.

I dont know what happen to it, it didnt turn out like I thought, wrong pic.

so new that I squeak...
 

I love the shots here...closeup work is amazing. I do a wee bit of stuff myself tho my camera is not nearly what I'd wish...I have a penchant for bugs, flowers, and horrible color combinations.

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This is a snifty lil green horned caterpillar guy on my boyfriend's arm...would not face the camera!

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Identified as Acanthocephala terminalis, leaf-footed bug, tho he looks more leaf-legged to me... :rolleyes:

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Carpenter ants. Dead. Much preferable that way.

Nice work catlyke, welcome to the Cellar. :D

oh, ohooooo verry interesting!! I didn't know there were such things.

My next guess would have been a dark room light or a stage light of some sort.

hee! thanks!
My camera is a Sharp TM150 camera phone with a whopping one and a half pixels, but when things sit still on the closeup setting, it can do some nifty stuff.

Guess when I get a real camera my head will explode with joy :D

If you get the camera, honey, we got the threads. :thumb2:

Well, those are the best phonecam shots I've seen to date.

thank ya muchly...I had another phonecam for a bit, a Samsung something or another, but the pix were not so good. I guess the extra half an MP helps a lot.

at it again...am I bluuuuuuuueeeee...
 

fibrous, innit? :D
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Looks like someone tossed an entire box of flat wooden toothpicks into the swimming pool.

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Just a lil bee flyin around in some neat looking flowers

I found a couple pictures in my spam filter this morning. :worried:

Not to worry, they were sent by GOD....or at least one of his aliases. :cool:

hee! it's a formica tabletop, I believe at a Burger King.

Bullits bee still grabs me every time I come back to it.

Probably because even without the bee, it's such a great picture. ;)

Thank ya much.. my new cam does take some pretty clear macro pictures so I'll try to give you guys some more in due time

I would like to thank everyone who has been posting images to the close-up thread. I've used many of these as my wallpaper after suitable resizing.

Oh, that poor birdy. :sniff:

Did some one say Bees ???
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pop!
 

Since we're horsing around.....

Damn Slang !!!
Scrub those NASTY Fangs of yours !!!!! ;)

As bad as my teeth look....

my breath is even worse! ;)

This friendly little bug was crawling around in my hair as I was talking on the phone.

What are those bugs? I've seen them too.

There is another one of these on page 14 of this thread.


Also residing in Texas.

"Identified as Acanthocephala terminalis, leaf-footed bug, tho he looks more leaf-legged to me" - Catlike

cool!

Looks like a stink-bug to me...

Not something new here but you cant have too many dogs in one thread.

Cool BigV, Very wild pictures. :thumbsup:

o_O in your hair?? how big was he? the one I shot was a good inch and a half long LOL I am glad he was not trying to walk around in my hair. He was a good model, though...sat very still :D

Exactly .942844 inch.

After he startled me by somehow landing in my hair, we had a short conversation.

Yes, he's a Republican so I let him live.

He used my phone briefly and we were both on our separate ways.

My poor, bent intake valve. (350 4-bolt main of a 1978 Corvette)
I jumped on the accelerator and the timing chain must have had some slack. My #2 piston slapped the intake valve, denting the piston top, bending the stem, pushrod AND the cam. :eek:
We rebuilt it with better internals. Now I've got more power. :D
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From my yard:
Peony
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Hydrangea
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Camelia
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Camelia03q.jpg

Man, that top flower is uuugggly!

First the catfish, now the bugs.. Who are you really? Dr Doolittle?

My life is difficult to describe to those people that I know in life, trying to explain it here would take more time and talent that I have.

Here's the short version.

I'm not normal.


You should see all those photos that I don't post if you think those are strange:blush: