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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Stellaria - &quot;Where Light meets the Ordinary&quot; Feed</title><link>http://renseblog.stellaria.nl/</link><description>So, this is the place on the web where I will give an account of my daily life. Will it be interesting? I don&#039;t know. But at least I know I will post the things which interest &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;</description><item><title>A tiny Cuckoo wasp</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=81</link><description><![CDATA[ Two weeks ago I found a very small insect on the forget-me-nots in our backyard. First I thought it was a small ant, we have them all over. With the naked eye however, I couldn't tell what it was. Looking through the camera, I discovered a beautiful metallic blue, very tiny wasp. It's harness was sculptured, like a 'driven' metal plate or so. I thought it had to be a member of the Cuckoo wasp family, Chrysididae, although it was quite small for that. With the book about wasps I have I couldn't tell what species it was. Before I could take decent photos of it, it flew, and I couldn't find it back. Last week I noticed a similar specimen on one of the upright columbines we have in our backyard. Although I took many photos of it, none of them was good enough to show... And no wasps whatsoever after that moment... Until today! I saw a tiny bug landing on that same columbine, and even on that same flower. I grabbed my camera and made some decent shots with this beautiful insect, with the leaves of a red Heuchera in the background. I still don't know the right name for it, but beautiful it is.....    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 16:41:04 +0200</pubDate><category>macro photography</category></item><item><title>Lasius niger</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=80</link><description><![CDATA[ The backyard is still a very nice place to shoot macro photos! If you're not constantly seeking new species, it gives plenty of opportunities to shoot new and original photos. This morning, I made this photo of a very common ant species  Lasius niger . It lives under the tiles in our garden, and visits the spores of the Columbines which are in full bloom right now. This one was made on a lilac one...       
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:29:14 +0200</pubDate><category>macro photography</category></item><item><title>Weevil in Blue</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=79</link><description><![CDATA[ I was quite pleased with this one!      
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:47:28 +0200</pubDate><category>macro photography</category></item><item><title>Some with my new macro-rig</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=78</link><description><![CDATA[ I made a flash diffuser for my external flash, mounted on a flash bracket. Hardly ever use this flash, but I saw some spectacular macro photos made with an off-camera flash, and I wanted to try it too. So, this is my set up: Pentax K-5 body, Panagor 90/2.8 macro lens with a Pentax-A 50/1.7 reversed on top, and the external flash with home made diffuser. 


    


    And here are some examples made with this combo. Just from our back garden... Quit some species to find here! 

    



   
 


    


    


     
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 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:27:37 +0200</pubDate><category>macro photography</category></item><item><title>Cycle and Cyclist</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=76</link><description><![CDATA[ Probably these are a bit at the edge of real street photography. But I like them, and wanted to show them...  

     

   
  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:52:41 +0200</pubDate><category>street photography</category></item><item><title>Lord and Ladies (Arum maculatum)</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=75</link><description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, I had an excursion to the Imstenraderbosch, in the very South of the country. Earlier this week I had seen this plant - Lord and Ladies - in the Hallerbos, but only still in bud. In the Imstenraderbosch, the first were flowering. I chose to shoot one with (filtered) backlight.

    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:36:49 +0200</pubDate><category>nature photography</category></item><item><title>Bluebells in the Hallerbos</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=74</link><description><![CDATA[ Yesterday I visited the Hallerbos, one of the famous Bluebell forests in Flanders. It's an ancient forest on loam, with an extensive population of Bluebells ( Hyacinthoides non-scripta ). Since we - dwelling the northern Low Countries - don't have this species, we don't have the woodland types characterised by this species either (duh): the  Endymio-Carpinetum  and the  Endymio-Fagetum .   It was worth the trip. As far as the eye could see the forest floor was covered with a blue carpet of Bluebells in full bloom. It was a pity that the Beeches were late, because the combination of the blue of the  Hyacint  with the fresh green of the Beech leaves is something special, but ay, you can't have everything, do you? Without the green it was great nonetheless, and in this way there is a good reason to visit the forest again next year or so...:)  Here some of my first photo's... Probably I will post more in the next days...  


      


     
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:47:12 +0200</pubDate><category>nature photography</category></item><item><title>Willows and Poplars</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=73</link><description><![CDATA[ Just a snap of sunlit willows and poplars against the dark rain clouds of this afternoon....  

   

  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:13:52 +0200</pubDate><category>nature photography</category></item><item><title>Cherry blossom with the Helios 44K-4</title><link>http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/blog/renseblog?Home&amp;post=72</link><description><![CDATA[ I brought myself in serious trouble again, by signing up for another "Single in ... " Challenge on Pentaxforums.com. The whole idea is to shoot one lens for a whole month and post/upload one photo a day with this lens. My lens for April is the Helios 44K-4, a Pentax dedicated version of the Russian copy of the famous Biotar...   This is my photo for the 5th of April.       
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